Frabjous lunchtime oboe playing

[Flay]

I really enjoyed the lunchtime concert performance today of the Gran Partita as arranged for oboe, string trio and piano. It was delicately beautiful with a fiery finale.

Did anyone else hear it?

[Nick Armstrong]

Not too camp? q.v. http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...732#post438732

[Lento]

Also interesting to hear the VW Blake Songs on Tues lunchtime.

[Richard Tarleton]

Beautifully played - though I was still left wondering why anyone would have thought it necessary to arrange this piece for this this particular ensemble. I missed the intro, was the arranger in a POW camp with only those players available or something?

Not too camp? q.v. http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...732#post438732

We heard Leleux play the Strauss OC in Cardiff in 2011 - with some virtuosic modern piece as an encore, no idea what. Dazzlingly mellifluous playing, he sounded superb from the second row of the stalls.

[Nick Armstrong]

he sounded superb from the second row of the stalls.

... always a good test!

[vinteuil]

Beautifully played - though I was still left wondering why anyone would have thought it necessary to arrange this piece for this this particular ensemble. I missed the intro, was the arranger in a POW camp with only those players available or something?


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... I think the arranger was Johann Friedrich Schwencke [1792-1852] - or possibly Christian Friedrich Gottlieb Schwencke [1767-1822]. It wd have been nice to have had period instruments...


EDIT - it was Christian, apparently :

http://www.editionhh.co.uk/shop/item.aspx?itemid=421

[Richard Tarleton]

Ah, thank you. Will certainly listen again.....

[Flay]

Not too camp?

Not at all. It was daintily restrained. Delightful (to my untrained ear)

[teamsaint]

Yup, heard all of this on an interminable foggy drive back from Cornwall.

Not really absolutely convinced of the difficulty of getting 13 wind players together,in the email age ,( the reason given by the announcer as the Raison D'etre for this arrangement), but the oboe was pleasantly and convincingly to the fore, and it all worked well enough.
left me wanting to hear the original version again though, which I guess is a good thing.

[teamsaint]

Not at all. It was daintily restrained. Delightful (to my untrained ear)

i actually love the idea of a person with one trained ear, and one untrained.

i don't know why, though.

[Flay]

Not really absolutely convinced of the difficulty of getting 13 wind players together,in the email age ,( the reason given by the announcer as the Raison D'etre for this arrangement)

No doubt Christian Schwencke would have loved to have email in 1805!

[teamsaint]

No doubt Christian Schwencke would have loved to have email in 1805!

yeah I know, just the way it came over on the announcement ( to my two untrained ears !!)
Easier just to rearrange the whole thing, back then, I suppose !!

Edit: Very nice introduction by the band, who were obviously loving playing this music.