Holloway, Robin: Romanza for oboe and string orchestra op. 59 (1984) 15'
for oboe and string orchestra
World Premiere
8/30/1986
Peterborough, New Hampshire
Randall Wolfram / Monadnock Music / James Bolle
Composer's Notes
This little work was written around Easter 1984 and is dedicated to Judith Weir. It has three movements which play without a break. The first is mainly slowish (andante molto); its rather faster dance-like inner section provides the main themes for the scherzo second movement (vivace), whose two trio-episodes in turn provide the molto-theme that permeates the last movement. This is slower than the first (adagio non troppo) and linked to it in material and in mood, by connections that, general at first, become more and more explicit towards the close.
Robin Holloway
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for oboe and string orchestra
World Premiere
8/30/1986
Peterborough, New Hampshire
Randall Wolfram / Monadnock Music / James Bolle
Composer's Notes
This little work was written around Easter 1984 and is dedicated to Judith Weir. It has three movements which play without a break. The first is mainly slowish (andante molto); its rather faster dance-like inner section provides the main themes for the scherzo second movement (vivace), whose two trio-episodes in turn provide the molto-theme that permeates the last movement. This is slower than the first (adagio non troppo) and linked to it in material and in mood, by connections that, general at first, become more and more explicit towards the close.
Robin Holloway
Reproduction Rights
This programme note can be reproduced free of charge in concert programmes with a credit to the composer
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