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Oboe Concerto (Zwilich)

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remarked that the concerto "agreeably exploits the instrument's capacity for lyricism and ingeniously provides it with a 'family' (a second oboe, oboe d'amore and cor anglais) with which it can have more intimate conversations than with the main orchestra, but the music does not so much develop as
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wrote, "Ms. Zwilich is as always an excellent craftsman. Her ideas, often in short bursts of phrase, are transformed and moved around the orchestra. There is a clean, almost chamber-music quality to the orchestration that never swallows Mr. Mack's excellent playing. Double-reeds from within the
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was highly critical of the piece, saying, "The 1990 Oboe Concerto is played by the oboist for whom it was written, John Mark, a musician of distinction. Alas, the work has no such distinction."
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ensemble frequently answer him, giving a feeling of sympathetic vibration rather than sharp contrast." He added, "This is as strong and convincing a piece from her as I can remember."
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on January 17, 1991. The piece is dedicated "with affection" to John Mack.
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The music is scored for solo oboe and an orchestra comprising
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and has a performance duration of approximately 20 minutes.
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alternate between slow and fast ideas." Annette Morreau of
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Index

oboe
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
Cleveland Orchestra
John Mack
Christoph von Dohnányi
movement
piccolo
flute
oboe
Oboe d'amore
English horn
clarinets
bassoon
contrabassoon
horns in F
cornets
timpani
strings
Carnegie Hall
Bernard Holland
The New York Times
Symphony No. 3
Concerto Grosso
Michael Oliver
Gramophone
BBC Music Magazine



Zwilich, Ellen Taaffe

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