Helen Jahren,Oboe on CD
Helen Jahren,Oboe
Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.
Benjamin Britten: Temporal Vaitaions für Oboe & Klavier; 6 Metamorphosen nach Ovid für Oboe solo; 2 Insect Pieces für Oboe & Klavier
+Antal Dorati: 5 Stücke für Oboe solo; Cuo concertante für Oboe & Klavier
+Ernst Krenek: Sonatina für Oboe solo; 4 Stücke für Oboe & Klavier
- Artists:
- Helen Jahren (Oboe),Elisabeth Westenholz (Klavier)
- Label:
- BIS
- Year of recording ca.:
- 1994
- Item number:
- 2830788
- UPC/EAN:
- 7318590007372
- Release date:
- 16.11.2004
Helen Jahren is one of today’s most prominent oboe soloists. As one might expect from a former pupil of the legendary Heinz Holliger, she takes a great interest in contemporary music and has premièred a succession of concertos and works written directly for her. On this disc however, she presents a selection of pieces written between 1935 and 1983 for oboe, with and without piano accompaniment. The composers are Britten, Doráti and Krenek – of English, Hungarian and Austrian origin respectively – and the musical styles they employ in these pieces are even more varied. But as will be obvious to any listener, the specific qualities of the oboe have been a strong inspiration for all three composers. These qualities have been described by Berlioz: ‘The sounds of the oboe are suitable for expressing simplicity, artless grace, gentle happiness, or the grief of a weak soul’, and by Richard Strauss: ’With its thick and insolent low register and its pointed, incisively thin upper register the oboe is very well suited to humorous effects and caricatures: the oboe can rasp and squawk, just as well as it can sing nobly and chastely.’ These diverse personalities of the oboe are much in evidence on this disc. And they are admirably brought out by Helen Jahren with the assistance of Elizabeth Westenholz, known to BIS followers for a large number of recordings, including the complete works for solo piano by her compatriot Carl Nielsen as well as Beethoven’s piano concertos and various chamber music programmes.
Tracklisting
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
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1 Temporal Variations, for oboe & piano: Theme
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2 Temporal Variations, for oboe & piano: Oration
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3 Temporal Variations, for oboe & piano: March
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4 Temporal Variations, for oboe & piano: Exercises
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5 Temporal Variations, for oboe & piano: Commination
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6 Temporal Variations, for oboe & piano: Chorale
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7 Temporal Variations, for oboe & piano: Waltz
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8 Temporal Variations, for oboe & piano: Polka
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9 Temporal Variations, for oboe & piano: Resolution
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10 Metamorphoses (6) after Ovid, for oboe solo, Op. 49: I. Pan who played upon the reed pipe which was Syrinx, his beloved
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11 Metamorphoses (6) after Ovid, for oboe solo, Op. 49: II. Phaeton who rode upon the chariot of the sun for one day and was hurled into
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12 Metamorphoses (6) After Ovid, For Oboe Solo, Op. 49: Iii. Niobe Who, Lamenting The Death Of Her Fourteen Children, Was Turned Into A
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13 Metamorphoses (6) after Ovid, for oboe solo, Op. 49: IV. Bacchus at whose feasts is heard the noise of gaggling women's tattling tong
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14 Metamorphoses (6) after Ovid, for oboe solo, Op. 49: V. Narcissus who fell in love with his own image and became a flower
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15 Metamorphoses (6) after Ovid, for oboe solo, Op. 49: VI. Arethusa who, flying from the love of Alpheus the river god, was turned into
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16 Insect Pieces (2), for oboe & piano: I. The Grasshopper
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17 Insect Pieces (2), for oboe & piano: II. The Wasp
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18 Pieces (5) for oboe: I. La cigale et la fourmie (d'après Lafontaine)
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19 Pieces (5) for oboe: II. Lettre d'amour
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20 Pieces (5) For Oboe: Iii. Fugue À Trois Voix
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21 Pieces (5) for oboe: IV. Berceuse
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22 Pieces (5) for oboe: V. Légerdemain
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23 Duo Concertante for oboe and piano: I. -attacca-
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24 Duo Concertante for oboe and piano: II.
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25 Sonatina for solo oboe, Op. 156: I. Allegro
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26 Sonatina for solo oboe, Op. 156: II. Adagietto
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27 Sonatina For Solo Oboe, Op. 156: Iii. Vivace
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28 Sonatina for solo oboe, Op. 156: IV. Andante
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29 Pieces (4) for oboe & piano: I.
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30 Pieces (4) for oboe & piano: II.
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31 Pieces (4) For Oboe & Piano: Iii.
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32 Pieces (4) for oboe & piano: IV.
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