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3 works · 49:31

Piano Concerto in A major, K.414Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 3 movements28:30
1. 1 i. Allegro 11:36
2. 2 ii. Andante 9:02
3. 3 iii. Rondeau – Allegretto 7:52
Sonata for Oboe and PianoJindřich Feld 3 movements15:09
1. 4 i. Molto moderato – Più mosso – Tempo I 6:47
2. 5 ii. Scherzo – Allegro assai 3:27
3. 6 iii. Finale – Allegro con brio – Molto moderato 4:55
7 Fantasia in D minor, K.397 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Andante – Allegretto 5:52

Recorded in Elder Hall, Adelaide, this programme pairs Mozart’s Piano Concerto in A major, K.414, and the Fantasia in D minor, K.397, with Jindřich Feld’s Sonata for Oboe and Piano. Feld wrote the sonata for and dedicated it to Tancibudek; the pair premiered it with Blumenthal only weeks before these sessions.

In the artist’s words

Outstanding soloists of different instruments (e.g. Jean-Pierre Rampal) as well as ensembles (e.g. Smetana and Prague String Quartets) often inspired me to write for them. The present oboe sonata (composed in 1981-2) is the most recent work also inspired by an outstanding instrumentalist, the oboeist Jiří Tancibudek, to whom the work is dedicated. My aim was to write for a friend a work which could display the enormous expressive and technical potential of the oboe and his own art of playing.

The first movement is rather lyrical while the second and last movements have more virtuoso character and are technically and rhythmically very demanding requiring precision of execution. The very exacting piano part is not just an accompaniment but a fully integrated part of the sonata calling for equal perfection from the performer. The structure of the compositional technique is dodecaphonic with some freedom at times.

— Jindřich Feld

Artists

Daniel Blumenthal

piano

Daniel Blumenthal is the piano soloist in Mozart with the University of Adelaide Chamber Orchestra under Jiri Tancibudek. His work centres on solo and chamber piano repertoire across a large recorded catalogue.

Jiří Tancibudek

oboe, conductor

Jiří Tancibudek was the oboist for whom Bohuslav Martinů wrote the Concerto for Oboe and Small Orchestra, and the player who premiered Colin Brumby's Romance for Oboe and Strings and Margaret Sutherland's Concertante for Oboe and Strings.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

composer

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He wrote over 600 works, many of them pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic and choral music, and remains among the most enduringly popular of classical composers.

Jindřich Feld

composer

Jindřich Feld’s catalogue runs from children’s opera and choral nonsense rhymes to orchestral scores, chamber music and virtuoso flute writing. The music sits near Martinů and the French line from Debussy to Messiaen, with a clear ear for colour and craft.