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CHAN 20391
Benjamin Britten: Complete Chamber Works for Oboe
CD UPC: 0095115239124
Release Date: December 2026
Originally recorded in September 2025
Release Date: December 2026
Originally recorded in September 2025
Composer
Benjamin Britten
Benjamin Britten
Solo Violin
Fenella Humphreys
Fenella Humphreys
Solo Viola
Ting-Ru La
Ting-Ru La
Solo Cello
Tim Posner
Tim Posner
Solo Piano
Tom Poster
Tom Poster
Solo
Allie Daniel
Allie Daniel
Solo Oboe
Nicholas Daniel
Nicholas Daniel
Solo Piano
Julius Drake
Julius Drake
Producer
Jonathan Cooper
Jonathan Cooper
Engineer
Jonathan Cooper
Jonathan Cooper
Venue 25-27 Sept 2025 and 28 March 2026
Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk
Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk
Genre:
Chamber
Classical
Chamber
Classical
Available: 11/DEC/2026
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
1.
Phantasy, Op. 2
13:43
Quartet in One Movement for Oboe, Violin, Viola, and Cello
To Leon Goossens
Andante alla marcia -
2.
Cuckoo!, Op. 7 No. 3
1:53
from Friday Afternoons
Quietly –
Two Insect Pieces
5:14
Edited by Colin Matthews
For Sylvia Spencer
3.
The Grasshopper. Allegretto leggiero –
3:11
4.
The Wasp. Allegro molto e con fuoco –
2:02
Temporal Variations
14:52
Edited by Colin Matthews
To Montagu Slater
5.
I
Theme. Andante rubato –
1:49
6.
II
Oration. Lento quasi recitativo -
1:55
7.
III
March. Alla marcia –
1:14
8.
IV
Exercises. Allegro molto e con fuoco –
1:11
9.
V
Commination. Adagio con fuoco –
1:30
10.
VI
Chorale. Molto lento –
2:14
11.
VII
Waltz. Allegretto rubato –
1:41
12.
VIII
Polka. Tempo di Polka
1:20
13.
IX
Resolution. Maestoso
1:54
14.
I wonder as I wander
4:02
in B flat minor
No. 6 from Tom Bowling and Other Song Arrangements tune by, or collected by, John Jacob Niles published in Songs of the Hill-folk
performed on oboe and cor anglais
[Freely] –
15.
‘Cat’ and ‘Mouse’
3:54
from Rejoice in the Lamb, Op. 30
performed on oboe and cor anglais with piano
Quietly moving (Andante tranquillo) –
Six Metamorphoses after Ovid, Op. 49
14:42
For Joy Boughton
16.
I
Pan who played upon the reed pipe which was Syrinx, his beloved.
2:23
17.
II
Phaeton who rode upon the chariot of the sun for one day and was hurled into the river Padus by a thunderbolt.
1:35
18.
III
Niobe who, lamenting the death of her fourteen children, was turned into a mountain
2:43
19.
IV
Bacchus at whose feasts is heard the noise of gaggling women’s tattling tongues and the shouting out of boys
1:53
20.
VI
Narcissus who fell in love with his own image and became a flower
3:09
21.
VI
Arethusa who, flying from the love of Alpheus the river god, was turned into a fountain.
2:56
Solo: Allie Daniel
22.
Before Life and After, Op. 52 No. 8
3:40
from Winter Words
Quietly moving
TT 62:04
