BRITTEN, Sarah Francis, Michael Dussek, Delme Quartet
Music for Oboe & Music for Piano
1 Phantasy Quartet, Op 2 [13'25]
Holiday Diary, Op 5
2 Movement 1: Early Morning Bath [2'20]
3 Movement 2: Sailing [4'36]
4 Movement 3: Fun-Fair [2'49]
5 Movement 4: Night [6'09]
Six Metamorphoses after Ovid, Op 49
6 No 1: Pan, who played upon the reed pipe which was Syrinx, his beloved [1'54]
7 No 2: Phaeton, who made upon the chariot of the sun for one day and was hurled into the river Padus by a thunderbolt [1'29]
8 No 3: Niobe, who, lamenting the death of her fourteen children, was turned into a mountain [2'12]
9 No 4: Bacchus, at whose feast is heard the noise of gaggling women's tattling tongues and shouting out of boys [1'57]
10 No 5: Narcissus, who fell in love with his own image and became a flower [2'20]
11 No 6: Arethusa, who, flying from the love of Alpheus the river god, was turned into a fountain [2'39]
Temporal Variations
12 Movement 1: Theme. Andante rubato [1'26]
13 Movement 2: Oration. Lento quasi recitativo [1'39]
14 Movement 3: March. Alla marcia [1'09]
15 Movement 4: Exercises. Allegro molto e fuoco [1'03]
16 Movement 5: Commination. Adagio con fuoco [1'14]
17 Movement 6: Chorale. Molto lento [1'37]
18 Movement 7: Waltz. Allegretto rubato [1'21]
19 Movement 8: Polka. Tempo di Polka – Allegro [1'12]
20 Movement 9: Resolution. Maestoso, ma non troppo lento [1'56]
Five Waltzes
21 No 1: Rather fast and nervous [1'22]
22 No 2: Quick, with wit [1'35]
23 No 3: Dramatic [1'21]
24 No 4: Rhythmic, not fast [3'01]
25 No 5: Variations. Quiet and simple; Flowing; Slow and sad [2'36]
Two Insect Pieces
26 No 1: The Grasshopper [2'37]
27 No 2: The Wasp [1'53]
28 Night Piece 'Notturno' [5'38]
Sarah Francis - oboe
Michael Dussek - piano
Delme Quartet - quartet