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Sonata for Oboe and Piano
Composer: Bertenshaw, Derry
Instrumentation: Oboe and Piano
Description
This Sonata was composed for the professional oboe and piano duo of David Glossop and his …wife Roselinde to whom it is dedicated. They gave the first performance at a concert to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of The Churches Conservation Trust at St. Mary’s Church, Shrewsbury on 28th June 2019.
Tunefulness and lightness of touch are qualities I have striven for in this Sonata. The first movement is a gentle modal Pastorale in simplified Sonata Form (without a development section). It opens with a five-note figure (derived from a turn) in the oboe part and an auxiliary-note figure in the piano. These two motifs (and their constituent interval of a second) form the basis for most of the thematic material in the entire Sonata.
In the second movement I have returned to the original meaning of Scherzo as ‘a joke’; the music is full of rollicking good humour. The slow movement is titled Nocturne because it is music of the night – there are long shadows over the music with a rich, romantic melody at its core. The work is rounded off with a virtuoso Finale in Sonata Rondo Form which recalls themes from previous movements.
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