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G. Jacob: Works for Oboe and Strings
The works brought together here reveal the composer Gordon Jacob from an unknown angle. In line with the typical British predilection for the oboe, we experience him here playing with traditions of musical gesture and form (Seven Bagatelles), as an expert on and lover of high-quality English... 
Gordon Jacob
"Das ergibt ein musikalisch höchst ansprechendes Raritätenprogramm, das vom ambitionierten Ensemble Più (exzellent der Essener Oboist Andreas Gosling!) mit der gebotenen musikantischen Leichtigkeit und tonlicher Delikatesse realisiert wurde." (Stereoplay)
G. Jacob: Works for Oboe and Strings
- Seven Bagatelles for Solo Oboe
- March - Alla marcia (01:01)
- Elegy - Andante espressivo (01:23)
- Waltz - Tempo di valse, poco lento (01:34)
- Slow Air - Adagio (01:24)
- Limerick - Allegro vivace (00:26)
- Chinese Tune - Larghetto (01:42)
- Galop - Presto (00:57)
- Six Shakespearian Sketches for String Trio
- "How sweet the moonlight sleeps on yonder bank" - Adagio misterioso (02:28)
- "Foot it featly" - Allegro leggiero quasi presto (01:44)
- "In sad cypress" - Molto adagio ed elegiaco (02:16)
- "Grace in all simplicity" - Tempo di minuetto (03:05)
- "And a' babbled of green fields" - Andante con moto (02:49)
- "Here a dance of clowns" - Molto allegro e con brio (01:46)
- Quartet for Oboe and Strings
- Allegro moderato (06:10)
- Scherzo. Allegro molto - Presto (03:29)
- Andante semplice (06:01)
- Rondo. Allegro molto (03:57)
The works brought together here reveal the composer Gordon Jacob from an unknown angle. In line with the typical British predilection for the oboe, we experience him here playing with traditions of musical gesture and form (Seven Bagatelles), as an expert on and lover of high-quality English literature (Six Shakespearian Sketches) programmatically and sensitively integrating original headings and fragments from Shakespeare's works into his music, and as a composer who always stood up for graspable melody (Quartet), never sacrificing it in favour of progress.
Gordon Jacob is otherwise best known today as the creator of works for brass and woodwinds. His brilliant writing for wind ensemble and symphonic band is a true enrichment of this genre. Although Jacob left numerous other compositions, ranging from symphonies and solo concertos to diverse chamber music, he is otherwise hardly represented as a composer in today's concert life.
The Ensemble Più have set themselves the special task of rediscovering new and unknown works alongside the classical chamber music repertoire. The fixed quartet instrumentation is regularly expanded in order to make unusual instrumental combinations possible as well.
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klassik-heute.com
| Wolfgang Stähr | July 9, 2004
Er war ein unzeitgemäßer Zeitgenosse, der Engländer Gordon Jacob, der noch im 19. Jahrhundert geboren wurde und 1984 in biblischem Alter starb, bis...
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Musica
| Gian Enrico Cortese | January 9, 2004
Felicemente tonale, con forti influssi modali, la musica di Gordon Percival Septimus Jacob (1895-1984) ha il grande pregio di essere comprensibile e...
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Rheinische Post
| Wolfram Goertz | November 20, 2004
Cousine Petra ist eine vorzügliche Oboistin, und schon als Vetter-Knirps lauschte ich andächtig, wie sie mit ihrem Instrument selbst wilde Tiere...
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Saarländischer Rundfunk
| Maria Gutierrez | December 6, 2004
[Hörbeispiel: Take 09 - Six Shakespearian Sketches: „Foot it featly“] - Eine kantige, rhythmische, pausendurchsetzte Musik huscht dahin –...
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Stereoplay
| Holger Arnold | January 9, 2004
Gordon Jacob (1895-1984) hat stets im Schatten seiner britischen...
G. Jacob: Works for Oboe and Strings (audite 97.517)
| article number: | 97.517 |
| EAN barcode: | 4022143975171 |
| price group: | BCA |
| release date: | 1. May 2004 |
| total time: | 42 min. |
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