Oboe Concerto - Elliott Carter

Ensemble InterContemporain conducted by Pierre Boulez. Heinz Holliger as the oboist.

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Carter's Oboe concerto was composed between 1986-7, being commissioned by Paul Sacher for the oboist Heinz Holliger. It was premiered on June 17 of 1988, performed by the Collegium Musicum Zürich under the conductor John Carewe along with Heinz Holliger. Sacher was a wealthy businessman and conductor of the Basel Chamber Orchestra who was responsible for financing numerous masterpieces for decades from the greatest composers of the century.

In this concerto, there are three main "characters": There is the solo oboe, who has a rather vehement, angry voice, often buzzing and making other modernistic sounds, but just as often falling into a kind of lost modern, atonal, lyrical melody. Then there is the main orchestra, which is serious-minded and dramatic, though without the personal emotional character of the oboe soloist. In addition, there is a small chamber group comprising four violas and a percussion player. This group is impetuous and flighty, a contrast to the regularity of the way the orchestra plays its material. In addition, the chamber group and the orchestra have entirely separate musical material, and develop this material in totally separate streams. The oboe sometimes mediates between the two. It is not easy music to grasp in its atonal and rhythmically complex style.

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