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The Complete Works for Oboe (Alexei Utkin, Hermitage Chamber Orchestra) '2004 [SACD]

Six Metamorphoses after Ovid, op. 49 (1951) for oboe solo. Dedicated to Joy Boughton

01. Pan, who played upon the reed pipe which was Syrinx, his beloved

02. Phaeton, who made upon the chariot of the sun for one day and was hurled into the river Padus by a thunderbolt

03. Niobe, who, lamenting the death of her fourteen children, was turned into a mountain

04. Bacchus, at whose feast is heard the noise of gaggling women’s tattling tongues and shouting out of boys

05. Narcissus, who fell in love with his own image and became a flower

06. Arethusa, who, flying from the love of Alpheus the river god, was turned into a fountain

07. Phantasy Quartet, op.2 (1932) for oboe, violin, viola and cello. Dedicated to Leon Goossens

Insect Pieces, op. posth. (1935)

Arranged for oboe and string orchestra by Leonid Hoffman

08. The Grasshoper

09. The Wasp

Temporal Variations, op. posth. (1936).

Arranged for oboe and string orchestra by Viktor Kozodov and Alexei Utkin. Dedicated to Montagu Slater

10. Theme. Andante rubato

11. Oration. Lento quasi recitativo

12. March. Alla marcia

13. Exercises. Allegro molto e con fuoco

14. Commination. Adagio con fuoco

15. Chorale. Molto lento

16. Waltz. Allegretto rubato

17. Polka. Tempo di Polka. Allegro

18. Resolution. Maestoso (ma non troppo lento)