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British Oboe Quintets

SIR ARNOLD BAX

Quintet (1922)

18:48

for Oboe and String Quartet

To Leon Goossens

Tempo molto moderato - Allegro - Allegro moderato -

6:10

Lento espressivo - [ ] - Tempo I - Molto tranquillo

8:08

Allegro giocoso - [ ] - Tempo I - Deciso - Più lento -

4:30

GERALD FINZI

Interlude, Op.21 (1932 - 36)

12:50

in A minor • in a-Moll • en la mineur

for Oboe and String Quartet

To Leon Goossens

Andante - A tempo, un poco più animato (Tempo I) -

RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

Six Studies in English Folksong (1926)

7:58

for Cello and Piano

To May Mukle

Arranged c.1983 for Cor anglais and String Quartet by Robert Stanton

Adagio ['Lovely on the Water']

1:36

Andante ['Spurn Point']

1:16

Larghetto ['Van Diemen's Land']

1:28

III

Lento ['She Borrowed Some of Her Mother's Gold']

1:14

Andante ['The Lady and the Dragoon'] - Slightly faster - Tempo I

1:29

10.

Allegro ['As I Walked over London Bridge']

0:52

SIR ARTHUR BLISS

Quintet, F 21 (1927)

21:56

for Oboe and String Quartet

To Mr Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge

11.

Assai sostenuto - Moderato - Poco animato - Allegro assai agitato -

8:25

12.

Andante con moto - Pochissimo più mosso -

7:59

13.

III

Vivace - [Connelly's Jig] - Più mosso

5:33

FREDERICK DELIUS

Two Interludes from 'Fennimore and Gerda' (1908-10)

5:23

Opera in Eleven Pictures

Arranged 1977 for Oboe and String Quartet

by Eric Fenby (1906-1997)

For Leon Goossens and the Fitzwilliam String Quartet

14.

Very quietly, not dragging - Poco più mosso - Meno mosso -

2:28

15.

Very slow

2:55

Total time: 66:53

Chamber: Doric String Quartet

Alex Redington violin

Ying Xue violin

Hélène Clément viola

John Myerscough cello

Performance **** Recording *****

“…Daniel’s immaculate playing is the main attraction here …”

Daniel Jaffé – BBC Music magazine – November 2021

Editor’s Choice

“…Nicholas Daniel is arguably the top English oboist playing today… The Doric Quartet have also shown their flair and understanding on a superb Chandos disc of the two string quartets by William Walton. It is a perfect combination for this repertoire…” *****

Phillip Scott – Limelightmagazine.com.au – 24 October 2021

“… As more buoyant music, from what is otherwise a dark and brooding opera [Delius’s Fennimore and Gerda] , these two pieces form satisfying miniatures, and to hear them played by Nicholas Daniel on Goossens’s original Lorée instrument gives us a unique insight into the older player’s expressive world..”

Jeremy Dibble – Gramophone magazine – October 2021

“The chamber combination of oboe and string quartet would seem to lend itself ideally to the pastoral image of British music of the first half of the 20th century, yet the works featured on this recording provide a much more colourful perspective …”

“…The warm, liquid tone which Daniel draws from all three instruments (cor anglais, Leon Goossens's 110-year-old oboe and his own modern model) is a constant source of pleasure throughout, and contrasts effectively with the muscular, at times astringent sound of the Dorics, who summon a near-orchestral weight in the outer movements of Bliss's Oboe Quintet from 1926.”

Katherine Cooper – Presto Music – September2021

“…Daniel’s creamy tone and unfailingly elegant phrasing are beautifully matched to all this music, and he and the Doric make strong cases for at least three of the works here – the quintets by Bax and Bliss, and Finzi’s beautiful Interlude.”

Andrew Clements – The Guardian – 30 September 2021

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