Sample Recital Programmes These Programmes Are ﬂexible and Can Be Supplemented with Piano Solo Pieces Where Requested

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James Turnbull Oboe / Cor Anglais Sample Recital Programmes These programmes are ﬂexible and can be supplemented with piano solo pieces where requested.

The Eloquent Oboe York Bowen Sonata for Oboe and Piano Op. 85 16’ Francis Poulenc Sonata for Oboe and Piano FP. 185 14’ Igor Stravinsky Suite Italienne 13’30

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Edmund Rubbra Sonata for Oboe and Piano in C 12’ Antal Dorati Duo Concertante 14’ Giovanni Daelli Fantasia for Oboe and Piano on Verdi’s “Rigoletto” 10’

L’Art du Hautbois - French music for the oboe Émile Paladilhe Solo for Oboe 4’30 Henri Dutilleux Sonata for Oboe and Piano 12’ [email protected] Gabriel Fauré Piece 3’ www.james-turnbull.com Gabriel Fauré Après Une Rêve 3’ Camille Saint-Saens Sonata for Oboe and Piano, Op. 166 12’

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Georges Hue Petite Piece 3’30 Francis Poulenc Sonata for Oboe and Piano, FP 185 14’ Claude Debussy Le petit Berger & Golliwog's Cakewalk (arr. Berkeley) 6’ Maurice Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin (arr. Schmitt) 15’

The Romantic Oboe - Schumann and his legacy Robert Schumann Three Romances, Op. 94 11’ Carl Nielsen Two Fantasy Pieces, Op. 2 6’30 Ralph Vaughan Williams Six Studies in English Folk Song for Cor Anglais 10’ Robert Schumann From Fünf Stücke im Volkston, Op. 102 9’30

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Clara Schumann 3 Romances 11’ Felix Mendelssohn Songs without Words (arr. Walter) 11’ Edward Elgar Soliloquy 4’30 Camille Saint-Saens Sonata for Oboe and Piano, Op. 166 12’

Inspiration - music inspired by poetry, art, mythology, atmospheres and events Solo Oboe Version (also available as a longer oboe and piano recital) Henry Tomasi Evocations 8’ Paul Reade Aspects of a Landscape 10’ Edmund Joliffe Pan (for oboe and tape) 7’30 James Macmillan In Angustiis II 11’ Thea Musgrave Niobe (for oboe and tape) 8’ Richard Dubugnon Cinq Masques 13’ Ross Edwards Ulpirra 2’

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The Oboe’s Voice - songs without words and operatic inﬂuences

Robert Schumann Three Romances, Op. 94 11’ Igor Stravinsky Pastorale 2’ Felix Mendelssohn Songs without Words (arr. Walter) 8’ Ralph Vaughan Williams Six Studies in English Folk Song for Cor Anglais 10’ Giovanni Daelli Fantasia for Oboe and Piano on Verdi’s “Rigoletto” 10’

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Robert Schumann From Fünf Stücke im Volkston, Op. 102 9’30 Fritz Kreisler Liebeslied 4’30 Gabriel Fauré Après Une Rêve 3’ Gabriel Fauré Romances without Words 7’30 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Wer Die Sehnsucht Kennt 3’ Sergei Rachmaninov Vocalise 5’30 Ralph Vaughan Williams Silent Noon 4’

Arcadia - English music for the oboe

Benjamin Britten Two Insect Pieces 5’ T. Attwood Walmisley Sonatina No. 1 9’ Edmund Rubbra Sonata for Oboe and Piano in C 12’ Ralph Vaughan Williams Six Studies in English Folksong (Cor Anglais & Piano) 10’

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York Bowen Oboe Sonata 16’ Paul Reade Aspects of a Landscape 9’ Gerald Finzi Interlude (arr. Ferguson) 12’30

Buried Treasures - rarely heard works of beauty for oboe and piano

François Devienne Sonata in B ﬂat Op. 70 No. 3 15’ T. Attwood Walmisley Sonatina No. 1 9’ Gabriel Grovlez Sarabande et Allegro 5’30 Edmund Rubbra Sonata for Oboe and Piano in C 12’

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Antal Dorati Duo Concertante (Heinz Holliger) 14’ Émile Paladilhe Solo for Oboe 4’30 Samuel Barber Canzonetta 7.30 Franz Reizenstein Sonatina for Oboe and Piano 12’30

An Oboe’s Journey - traveling across the world through oboe repertoire This recital features a very ﬂexible mix of music from various countries including USA (Barber and Agrell), UK (Finzi, Rubbra, Bowen, Britten), France (Dutilleux, Poulenc, Saint-Saens), Italy (Pasculli, Donizetti), Germany (Hindemith, Wagner, Schumann), Czechoslovakia (Haas, Kalliwoda), Poland (Lutoslawski), Denmark (Nielsen), South Korea (Isang Yun), Hungary (Dorati) and Australia (Edwards).

Sample programmes continue overleaf Legacies - music inspired by great oboists such as Leon Goossens, Evelyn Rothwell (Barbirolli) and Heinz Holliger

Benjamin Britten Two Insect Pieces (Sylvia Spencer) 5’ Edmund Rubbra Sonata for Oboe and Piano in C (Evelyn Rothwell) 12’ Michael Berkeley Fierce Tears II (Janet Craxton) 9’ Antal Dorati Duo Concertante (Heinz Holliger) 14’

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York Bowen Oboe Sonata 16’ Paul Reade Aspects of a Landscape 9’ Gerald Finzi Interlude (arr. Ferguson) 12’30

Fierce Tears - a recital featuring contemporary oboe music This programme can also be mixed with other less contemporary repertoire

Thea Musgrave Night Windows (2008) 13’ Michael Berkeley Fierce Tears I (1983) 7’30 John Woolrich The Kingdom of Dreams (1989) 9’30 Edwin Roxburgh Antares (1988) 10’

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Tansy Davies Forgotten Game 2 (2009) 7’ James Macmillan In Angustiis II for Solo Oboe (2001) 11’30 Thomas Hewitt Jones Sonata Cimarella (2011) 9’ Colin Matthews Night-Spell (1993) 4’30 Michael Berkeley Fierce Tears II (1990) 9’30

Lunchtime Oboe Recital Programme

Carl Nielsen Two Fantasy Pieces, Op. 2 6’30 Antonio Vivaldi Sonata in C minor RV 53 12’ Witold Lutoslawski Epitaph (1979) 5’ Edmund Rubbra Sonata for Oboe and Piano in C 12’ Giovanni Daelli Fantasia on Verdi’s Rigoletto 10’

Oboe Alone - Solo recital C.P.E. Bach Sonata in G minor 8’ Benjamin Britten 6 Metamorphoses after Ovid, Op. 49 15’ Richard Wagner Solo from Tristan (for Cor Anglais) 3’30 Richard Dubugnon Cinq Masques 12’30 Thea Musgrave Niobe (for oboe and tape) 5’ Michael Berkeley Snake (for Cor Anglais) 5’ Georg Philipp Telemann Fantasia No. 2 in A minor 6’

Goossens & Rothwell Remembered: The legacy of Leon Goossens & Evelyn Rothwell (suitable for lunchtime concert programming or extendable into full recital) Benjamin Britten 6 Metamorphoses after Ovid 15’ Edward Elgar Soliloquy 4’30 Edmund Rubbra Oboe Sonata in C 12’ Gerald Finzi Interlude (arr. Ferguson) 12’ Franz Reizenstein Sonatina for Oboe and Piano 12’30

Sample programmes continue overleaf War and Peace - music of conﬂict and calm for oboe and piano

Clara Schumann 3 Romances 11’ Benjamin Britten Temporal Variations 15’ Antal Dorati Duo Concertante (Heinz Holliger) 14’

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Pavel Haas Suite for oboe and piano 18’ Herbert Howells Sonata for oboe and piano 24’

Meditations - a recital for Oboe and Harp J.S. Bach Siciliano from Sonata No. 2 in E ﬂat BWV 1031 2’30 Patrick Hawes Earth Rise 4’30 Maurice Ravel Minuet from Le Tombeau de Couperin 5’ Gaetoni Donizetti Andante Sostenuto 4’ Oboe Solo piece c.15’ Edward Elgar Salut D’amour 3’30 Charles Koechlin Au Loin 4’30

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Claude Debussy Arabesque No. 2 4’ Michael Berkeley Second Still Life 7’ Gabriel Fauré Sicilienne 4’ Harp Solo piece c.15’ Jules Massenet Meditation from Thais 4’30 Frederic Chopin Variations on Rossini’s ‘La Cenerentola‘ 5’

From Britten to Berkeley and Bach - a recital for Oboe and Harp J.S. Bach Sonata in G minor (BWV 1030b) 15’ Benjamin Britten 6 Metamorphoses after Ovid, Op. 49 15’ Antonio Pasculli Hommage to Bellini for Cor Anglais and Harp 8’30

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Michael Berkeley Second Still Life 7’ Marcel Tournier Images Suite No. 4 for solo harp 15’ Astor Piazzolla From History of the Tango 15’

A Mozartian Phantasy - Oboe and String Trio Franz Krommer Oboe Quartet No. 1 in C major 14’ Lennox Berkeley String Trio Op. 19 16’ Joseph Horovitz Oboe Quartet Op. 18 12’ *** Interval ***

Benjamin Britten Phantasy Quartet 13’ Franz Schubert String Trio in B Flat D 471 7’30 W.A. Mozart Oboe Quartet K. 370 for Oboe and Strings 15’