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British Oboe Quintets
SIR ARNOLD BAX
Quintet (1922)
18:48
for Oboe and String Quartet
To Leon Goossens
1.
1
Tempo molto moderato - Allegro - Allegro moderato -
6:10
2.
2
Lento espressivo - [ ] - Tempo I - Molto tranquillo
8:08
3.
3
Allegro giocoso - [ ] - Tempo I - Deciso - Più lento -
4:30
GERALD FINZI
4.
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
5.
I
Adagio ['Lovely on the Water']
1:36
6.
II
Andante ['Spurn Point']
1:16
7.
II
Larghetto ['Van Diemen's Land']
1:28
8.
III
Lento ['She Borrowed Some of Her Mother's Gold']
1:14
9.
V
Andante ['The Lady and the Dragoon'] - Slightly faster - Tempo I
1:29
10.
VI
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.
I
Assai sostenuto - Moderato - Poco animato - Allegro assai agitato -
8:25
12.
II
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
Notes
The legendary British oboist Leon Goossens inspired all the composers represented on this recording, and all but one of the pieces were written for his oboe, on which he premièred the works by Delius, Bax, Bliss, and Finzi. The piece by Vaughan Williams is arranged for cor anglais, but it was on his own precious instrument that Goossens would première Vaughan Williams’s Oboe Concerto, in 1944. Nicholas Daniel has, with special permission from Goossens’s daughter Jennie, recorded Delius’s Two Interludes on Goossens’s (now 110-year-old) oboe, rather than his own modern oboe, and contributes a fascinating booklet note on the influence and experience of playing this instrument.
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Reviews
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 …”
Jeremy Dibble – Gramophone magazine – October 2021
“…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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British Oboe Quintets: Nicholas Daniel and Doric String Quartet