“The second of three concertante works Rimsky-Korsakov wrote as director of Russia’s Navy bands, this is billed not as a concerto (as are the compositions for trombone and clarinet), but simply as a set of variations. A short, ominous introduction lurching through the band’s lower regions gives way to a hint of the main theme at the top of the ensemble, and the oboe quickly slips in to play Glinka’s melody ’Beautiful Maiden’, a lilting polonaise. Twelve very short variations ensue—the whole work can be played in less than nine minutes—with soloist and band taking nearly equal shares of the m
...elodic work. Among the more striking variations are the fourth, in which the oboe plays recitative material over trills in the horns and flutes and a slightly sour waltz not long after that. Just before the end, the oboe takes a cadenza that is itself a sort of variation on the 12th variation. The band bursts in with a few peremptory measures and definitively halts the proceedings.“
—James Reel
Date: 1878
Order:
Introduction: 0:16
Theme: 0:48
Variation 1: 1:09
Variation 2: 2:10
Variation 3: 2:26
Variation 4: 2:44
Variation 5: 3:43
Variation 6: 4:02
Variation 7: 4:22
Variation 8: 4:43
Variation 9: 4:55
Variation 10: 5:43
Variation 11: 6:02
Variation 12: 6:40
Finale: 6:58
Performers:
Lajos Lencsés on oboe
Hans Zimmer as conductor
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
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