When There Are No Words - Revolutionary Works for Oboe & Piano / Klein, Bush

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Label
Cedille
Release Date
March 11, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      William Bolcom, Benjamin Britten, Pavel Haas, Paul Hindemith, Jose Sequeira, Klement Slavicky
    • PERFORMER
      Alex Klein, Phillip Bush
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 11, 2022
    • UPC
      735131920827
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CDR 208
    • LABEL
      Cedille
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Munter

      Composer: Paul Hindemith

      Performer: Alex Klein, Phillip Bush

    2. II. Sehr langsam

      Composer: Paul Hindemith

      Performer: Alex Klein, Phillip Bush

    3. I. Furioso

      Composer: Pavel Haas

      Performer: Alex Klein, Phillip Bush

    4. II. Con fuoco

      Composer: Pavel Haas

      Performer: Alex Klein, Phillip Bush

    5. III. Moderato

      Composer: Pavel Haas

      Performer: Alex Klein, Phillip Bush

    6. Aubade

      Composer: William Bolcom

      Performer: Alex Klein, Phillip Bush

    7. Theme

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Alex Klein, Phillip Bush

    8. Variation 1: Oration

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Alex Klein, Phillip Bush

    9. Variation 2: March

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Alex Klein, Phillip Bush

    10. Variation 3: Exercises

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Alex Klein, Phillip Bush

    11. Variation 4: Commination

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Alex Klein, Phillip Bush

    12. Variation 5: Chorale

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Alex Klein, Phillip Bush

    13. Variation 6: Waltz

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Alex Klein, Phillip Bush

    14. Variation 7: Polka

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Alex Klein, Phillip Bush

    15. Variation 8: Resolution

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Alex Klein, Phillip Bush

    16. No. 1. Calmo

      Composer: José Siqueira

      Performer: Alex Klein, Phillip Bush

    17. No. 2. Allegro scherzoso

      Composer: José Siqueira

      Performer: Alex Klein, Phillip Bush

    18. No. 3. Allegro

      Composer: José Siqueira

      Performer: Alex Klein, Phillip Bush

    19. I. Pastorale

      Composer: Klement Slavický

      Performer: Alex Klein, Phillip Bush

    20. II. Scherzo

      Composer: Klement Slavický

      Performer: Alex Klein, Phillip Bush

    21. III. Triste

      Composer: Klement Slavický

      Performer: Alex Klein, Phillip Bush

    22. IV. Bacchanale rustico

      Composer: Klement Slavický

      Performer: Alex Klein, Phillip Bush


Grammy Award-winner Alex Klein, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s principal oboe emeritus, and pianist Phillip Bush perform works by composers from both sides of the Atlantic who were caught up in or deeply moved by 20th-century political turmoil. The Brazilian-born oboe virtuoso’s passionate project, with its underlying appeal for tolerance, encompasses works by Czech, German, British, American, and Brazilian composers. Much of the music evinces a calm lyricism and melodious beauty that belie the composers’ difficult circumstances. Some were exiled from their native countries, others despaired of impending war. One, Pavel Haas, died in Auschwitz. Paul Hindemith’s 1938 Sonata for Oboe and Piano, written in Swiss exile, is said to represent happier days in his native Germany. Pavel Haas’s Suite for Oboe and Piano, composed at the outset of Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, shares the complex musical language of his teacher, Leoš Janácek. William Bolcom’s ultimately hopeful Aubade – for the Continuation of Life, written amid early 1980s fears of nuclear war, forges a fragile coexistence between cello and piano. Benjamin Britten’s Temporal Variations, written on the eve of World War II, expresses the composer’s anti-militarism. José Siqueira wrote his tuneful Three Etudes for Oboe with Piano Accompaniment shortly before fleeing Brazil’s military dictatorship. Klement Slavický’s professional musical career had been derailed by the Czech Communist regime by the time he wrote his virtuosic Suite for Oboe and Piano.