A 20th-Century Recital

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All this music is superbly played here, with the sensitive oboist Alexei Ogrintchouk dominating as he must, and the anthology, published at a time when we are all remembering the war, has an... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2014 More…

Release Date: 30th Jun 2014
Catalogue No: BIS2023
Label: BIS
Length: 64 minutes

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Hindemith: Sonata for Oboe and Piano in G

Work length11:35

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Alexei Ogrintchouk, Leonid Ogrintchouk

I. Munter

Track length3:36

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II. Sehr langsam - Lebhaft - Sehr langsam - Wieder lebhaft

Track length7:59

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Britten: Temporal Variations for oboe & piano

Work length14:29

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Alexei Ogrintchouk, Leonid Ogrintchouk

Theme

Track length1:57

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Variation 1, Oration

Track length1:51

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Variation 2, March

Track length1:07

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Variation 3, Exercises

Track length0:59

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Variation 4, Commination

Track length1:23

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Variation 5, Chorale

Track length2:05

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Variation 6, Waltz

Track length1:29

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Variation 7, Polka

Track length1:33

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Variation 8, Resolution

Track length2:05

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Doráti: Duo concertant for oboe & piano

Work length13:31

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Alexei Ogrintchouk, Leonid Ogrintchouk

I. Libero, rubatissimo

Track length6:39

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II. Molto vivace

Track length6:52

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Haas, P: Suite for Oboe & Piano, Op. 17

Work length15:15

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Alexei Ogrintchouk, Leonid Ogrintchouk

I. Furioso

Track length4:37

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II. Con fuoco - Con moto e poco largamente

Track length5:08

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III. Moderato

Track length5:30

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Ben-Haim: 3 Songs Without Words

Work length9:49

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Alexei Ogrintchouk, Leonid Ogrintchouk

No. 1, Arioso. Molto moderato (Version for Oboe and Piano)

Track length3:22

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No. 2, Ballad. Allegretto (Version for Oboe and Piano)

Track length2:32

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No. 3, Sephardic Melody. Largamente rubato e molto appassionato (Version for Oboe and Piano)

Track length3:55

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In their recital of twentieth-century music for oboe and piano, Alexei Ogrintchouk and his father Leonid present five works largely inspired by outstanding oboists and connected to the political and cultural tensions of the period leading up to, during and after the Second World War. Benjamin Britten’s interest in the oboe stemmed from his Phantasy Quartet of 1932, which was premièred by the eminent oboist Léon Goossens. In 1936 he composed the Temporal Variations, at a time when his diaries record much anxiety about the Spanish Civil War. This seems to surface in the nine brief movements, which include parodies of military marching and forced exercises, reaching a climax in the ‘Commination’, a recital of divine threats against sinners. Only two years later, in 1938, Goossens premièred the newly composed Oboe Sonata by Paul Hindemith, who soon after would emigrate from Nazi Germany where his situation had become untenable. His Czech colleague, Pavel Haas was less fortunate – caught in occupied Prague he composed one of his last works, the Suite for Oboe and Piano, shortly before being placed in the concentration camp of Theresienstadt – in 1944 he was sent to his death in Auschwitz. By then Paul Ben-Haim had lived for more than a decade in Palestine, where he emigrated after the Nazis had come to power in his native Germany. Adopting a Hebrew name, Ben-Haim was active in researching the folk songs of the Middle East, and described his Three Songs without Words as ‘tone pictures of an oriental mood’. In the most recent work on the disc, the Duo Concertante from 1983, the mood is if anything Hungarian – a colourful and virtuosic ‘Hungarian Rhapsody for the 20th century’ which Antal Doráti, a student of both Bartók and Kodály, composed for the Swiss oboist Heinz Holliger.

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October 2014

All this music is superbly played here, with the sensitive oboist Alexei Ogrintchouk dominating as he must, and the anthology, published at a time when we are all remembering the war, has an atmosphere of its own.

A 20th-Century Recital

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