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A 20th-Century Recital

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Catalogue numberBIS-2023 SACD
Release date2014-05-01
Discs1
Orig. sample rate96000Hz
Total time64:47

“Tipp”, Fono Forum

“Outstanding performances by son and father, accessible music of real substance and emotional resonance: What is not to like?” Fanfare

In their recital of twentieth-century music for oboe and piano, Alexei Ogrintchouk and his father Leonid present five works largely inspired by outstanding oboists and connected to the political and cultural tensions of the period leading up to, during and after the Second World War. Benjamin Britten’s interest in the oboe stemmed from his Phantasy Quartet of 1932, which was premièred by the eminent oboist Léon Goossens. In 1936 he composed the Temporal Variations, at a time when his diaries record much anxiety about the Spanish Civil War. This seems to surface in the nine brief movements, which include parodies of military marching and forced exercises, reaching a climax in the ‘Commination’, a recital of divine threats against sinners. Only two years later, in 1938, Goossens premièred the newly composed Oboe Sonata by Paul Hindemith, who soon after would emigrate from Nazi Germany where his situation had become untenable. His Czech colleague, Pavel Haas was less fortunate – caught in occupied Prague he composed one of his last works, the Suite for Oboe and Piano, shortly before being placed in the concentration camp of Theresienstadt – in 1944 he was sent to his death in Auschwitz. By then Paul Ben-Haim had lived for more than a decade in Palestine, where he emigrated after the Nazis had come to power in his native Germany. Adopting a Hebrew name, Ben-Haim was active in researching the folk songs of the Middle East, and described his Three Songs without Words as ‘tone pictures of an oriental mood’. In the most recent work on the disc, the Duo Concertante from 1983, the mood is if anything Hungarian – a colourful and virtuosic ‘Hungarian Rhapsody for the 20th century’ which Antal Doráti, a student of both Bartók and Kodály, composed for the Swiss oboist Heinz Holliger.
 
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  Composer: Hindemith, Paul
  Sonata for oboe and piano (1938) 11:21
01 I. Munter 03:33 $ 0.85 USD
02 II. Sehr langsam – Lebhaft 07:48 $ 1.87 USD
 
 
  Composer: Britten, Benjamin
  Temporal Variations (1936) 14:14
03 I. Theme. Andante rubato 01:54 $ 0.46 USD
04 II. Oration. Lento quasi recitativo 01:51 $ 0.44 USD
05 III. March. Alla marcia 01:07 $ 0.27 USD
06 IV. Exercises. Allegro molto e con fuoco 00:59 $ 0.24 USD
07 V. Commination. Adagio con fuoco 01:23 $ 0.33 USD
08 VI. Chorale. Molto lento 02:05 $ 0.50 USD
09 VII. Waltz. Allegretto rubato 01:29 $ 0.36 USD
10 VIII. Polka. Tempo di Polka – Allegro 01:33 $ 0.37 USD
11 IX. Resolution. Maestoso non troppo lento 01:53 $ 0.45 USD
 
 
  Composer: Doráti, Antal
  Duo Concertante (1983) 13:19
12 I. Libero, rubatissimo (lento, quasi una cadenza) [attacca] 06:37 $ 1.59 USD
13 II. Lento – Molto vivace 06:42 $ 1.61 USD
 
 
  Composer: Haas, Pavel
  Suite for oboe and piano, Op.17 (1939) 14:57
14 I. Furioso 04:33 $ 1.09 USD
15 II. Con fuoco 05:05 $ 1.22 USD
16 III. Moderato 05:19 $ 1.28 USD
 
 
  Composer: Ben-Haim, Paul
  Three Songs without Words (1952) 09:13
17 I. Arioso. Molto moderato 03:18 $ 0.79 USD
18 II. Ballad. Allegretto 02:30 $ 0.60 USD
19 III. Sephardic Melody. Largamente rubato e molto
appassionato
03:25 $ 0.82 USD
 
  Album total 64:47
ComposerBen-Haim, Paul
Britten, Benjamin
Doráti, Antal
Haas, Pavel
Hindemith, Paul
PianoOgrintchouk, Leonid
OboeOgrintchouk, Alexeï

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