Charme du Hautbois

Sample Programmes - 19th Century

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                          2 Players

 

'Nocturne'  (Oboe & Harp)
A programme of 19th century duos for harp and oboe using  a triebert oboe from c.1835, a treibert cor anglais from c.1855 and a Gothic Pedal harp.

In this programme we perform rarely heard music by Brod, one of the leading oboists and oboe developers of his day along with Pasculli, the ‘paganini of the oboe’ and Bochsa a harpist who developed modern harp technique.

 

Bochsa      Nocturne op.50 no.3                      

 Solo Harp Piece                                                   

Brod           Nocturne op.16                      

Pasculli      Ommage a Bellini  

 Solo harp Piece                                                      

Jadin           Soirees            

                                                                          

                           3 Players

 

'Nocturne'  (Oboe, Bassoon & Harp)

A programme of 19th century duos and trios for harp, bassoon and oboe using a triebert oboe from c.1835, a treibert cor anglais from c.1855,  a French bassoon from c.1840 and a Gothic Pedal harp.

In this programme we perform rarely heard music by Brod, one of the leading oboists and oboe developers of his day along with Pasculli, the ‘paganini of the oboe’ and Bochsa a harpist who developed modern harp technique.

 

Jadin        Soirees (oboe & harp)            

Bochsa    Nocturne  (bassoon & harp)

Pasculli    Ommage a Bellini  (cor anglais and harp)

Spohr       Adagio (bassoon & harp)      

Spohr       Solo for harp               

Brod         Fantasie en Trio op.5 

                                                    

‘Fantasie Français II' - (Oboe, Bassoon & Piano)

A programme of late 19th century duos and trios for oboe, bassoon and piano using period instruments; a triebert oboe & Cor Anglais from c.1860, and a Buffet-Crampon bassoon.

In this programme you will get to explore rarely heard music which show the instruments in music that is turning away from the excesses of 19th century virtuosity towards the new music of the 20th century.

 

Comptess de Grandval     Grand Trio (oboe, bassoon & piano)          Koechlin                              Au Loin   (cor anglais & piano)                     Jules Pillivestre                  Jupiter et Danae (oboe, bassoon & piano)  Emile Agnel                         Trio Pastorale (cor anglais, bassoon, pno)

H. Jancourt                          Bassoon Sonata

Theodophile C Lalliet        Terzetto op.22                                                       

 

Sample Programmes - 20th Century

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                          2 PLAYERS

 

 ‘A grand Tour’  (Oboe/Cor Anglais and Harp)

A programme of rarely heard original works for oboe and harp from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. With music from England France, Wales, Israel and Italy, you will be taken on a grand tour of styles and moods, including the English folk music, Hebrew melodies, and French romantic impressions.

The programme includes the stunning Ommage a Bellini – an exquisite work written for the virtuoso Italian oboist Pasculli to play with his daughter.

 

Alwyn,William                     Suite 1944-5 to Goossens & sister Sidonie Nicholas, Morgan                               Melody (arr.Goossens) pub.1949                         

Pasculli (died 1924)           Ommagio a Bellini for cor anglais & harp 

Koechlin 1867-1950          Au Loin (1896) for cor anglais & harp         

Bantock, Granville             Hamabdil (1919)  arr. for cor anglais & hp   

Soulage, Marcelle             Pastorale op.15 (1920)   

Hodgson, Peter                 Elegie for Leon and Marie Goossens 

 

‘Rhapsodie’  (Oboe & Organ)

A programme of rarely heard original works for oboe and organ from late 19th and early 20th century Germany. Using the now abandoned German fingering system oboe  made by one of Germany's leading woodwind manufactures, Mönnig c.1903, this programme explores the handful of works written between 1880 and 1950 in a musical partnership that was revived following its demise in the late 18th century.

 

Josef G Rheinberger         Andane Pastorale

F Matthison-Hansen        Cantilena

Otto E Goepfart                Andante Religioso

Hans Koessler                  Allerseelen

Hanns Schindler              Sonate op.38

Richard Fricke                   Hirtenmusik

Karl Mille                           Andante Religioso

 

                                3 PLAYERS

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'A Reed in the Wind' (Oboe, Basssoon & Piano)

A programme of English music from the first half of the twentieth century using a Thumbplate Loree oboe from 1905 and French System Buffet Bassoon from 1922 previously owned by the leading bassoonist Cecil James. Experience the lost colours and lightness of sound that made the English School of playing famous throught the world in music by some of the UK's greatest composers and players.

 

Geoffrey Bush                   Trio (1952)     

Sir Edward Elgar                Romance for Bassoon and Orchestra (1910)

Sir Benjamin Britten         Two insect pieces (1935)                                       Thomas Pitfield                 Trio

Alan Richardson                Three pieces for cor anglais and piano

Ralph Vaughan-Williams  Six studies in English Fok Song.

Michael Head                    Trio (1935)                                                                                                               

                               4 PLAYERS 

 

‘An English Phantasy’  (oboe, violin, viola, cello)

A  programme of English music for oboe and strings from the first half of the twentieth century. Using a period Loree oboe from 1905 as championed by Leon Goossens, this concert reveals rarely heard treasures and the lost kaleidoscope of sounds and colour associated with the oboe at this time.                                                                                       

Arnold Cooke                      Quartet (1948) 

Sir Lennox Berkeley           Adagio from String Trio op.19  (1943)      Ernest John Moeran                                Fantasy Quartet (1946)

Rutland Boughton             Three songs without words (1937)

Rebecca Clarke                   Two Duos for viola & cello (c.1916)

Sir Benjamin Britten          Phantasy Quartet (1933)