Britten - Music for Oboe and for Piano

I. Early Morning Bath

II. Sailing

III. Fun-Fair

IV. Night

I. Pan, who played upon the reed pipe which was Syrinx, his beloved

II. Phaeton, who made upon the chariot of the sun for one day and was hurled into the river Padus by a thunderbolt

III. Niobe, who, lamenting the death of her fourteen children, was turned into a mountain

IV. Bacchus, at whose feast is heard the noise of gaggling women's tattling tongues and shouting out of boys

V. Narcissus, who fell in love with his own image and became a flower

VI. Arethusa, who, flying from the love of Alpheus the river god, was turned into a fountain

I. Theme: Andante rubato

II. Oration: Lento quasi recitativo

III. March: Alla marcia

I. Rather fast and nervous

II. Quick, with wit

III. Dramatic

IV. Rhythmic, not fast

V. Variations: Quiet and simple; Flowing; Slow and sad

I. The Grasshopper

II. The Wasp