Pavel Haas, composer of the Suite for oboe and piano, died in the gas chambers of Auschwitz in 1944 after being deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1941.
Album & Artwork
This album features a program of works inspired by outstanding oboists and connected to the political and cultural tensions surrounding World War II.
Performer Biography
Leonid Ogrintchouk, the pianist, is a permanent chamber partner of the Russian National Orchestra leader Alexei Bruni and a member of the RNO Piano Trio.
Performer Biography
Alexei Ogrintchouk, the oboist on this recording, has been principal oboist of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam, since 2005.
Composer Biography
Antal Doráti, composer of Duo Concertante, considered himself primarily a 'conducting composer' rather than a 'composing conductor'.
Historical Context
The works by Benjamin Britten and Paul Hindemith on this album reflect concerns about the rise of fascism in Europe in the late 1930s.
Composition History
Pavel Haas's Suite, Op. 17, was completed on October 4, 1939, the day Germany announced its complete victory over Poland, and may have been intended as an anti-Nazi cantata.
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Fantasiestücke (Real-Time Compositions for Oboe and Piano)
Bennett: After Syrinx I - Poulenc: Oboe Sonata - Britten: Temporal Variations - Haas: Oboe Suite - Dranishnikova: Poème
Nicholas Daniel & Julius Drake play Finzi, Patterson, Howells (3 World Premiere Recordings)
Conversations
Beau soir
20th Century Polish Music for Oboe and Piano
Manuel de Falla: Seven Popular Spanish Songs: Brynjar Hoff
Modern Fairy Tales
Janacek: Violin Sonata, JW VII/7 - Haas: Suite for Oboe and Piano, Op. 17 - Giner: Trois silences déchirés - Lutoslawski: Epitaph - Dorati: Duo Concertante for Oboe And Piano
Saint-Saens, C.: Oboe Sonata in D Major / Poulenc, F.: Oboe Sonata / Britten, B.: 6 Metamorphoses After Ovid / Schumann, R.: 3 Romanzen
