Adding myself to the applause.  Absolutely wonderful.  Thanks so much for sharing!

Benediction

The oboe quartet is a lovely and I think unjustly neglected medium.  Aside from the great Mozart oboe quartet—one of the central pieces in the oboe repertory—there are works by Britten, Carter, and only a handful of others.  And so I was especially grateful to the New Orleans chamber music ensemble Musaica for commissioning this piece from me and giving me the opportunity to try my hand at one myself.  As the title implies, the piece takes the form of a Baroque suite, with five short movements: Allemande, Corrente, Sarabande, Gavotte, and Gigue.  They all strive to be contrapuntal in the traditional sense, and except for the Sarabande they are all in binary form, with both the A and B sections repeated.  Special thanks to Bill Porter for putting up with my earliest attempts at a Baroque suite in his harpsichord improvisation class so many years ago, and of course special thanks to my consultants on all matters oboe and string, Meredeth Rouse and Josh Feltman.

This live recording is from the premiere, by Musaica, on April 10, 2012 in New Orleans.  The performers are Jane Gabka, oboe; Judith Armistead Fitzpatrick, violin; Ila Rondeau, viola; and David Rosen, cello.

Suite in A Minor for Oboe Quartet

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