Oboe Quartet, K370 - Viola

Quartet for Oboe, Violin, Viola and Cello in F Major, K370: III. Rondeau (Allegro)

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Doctorwendy rated it it was ok Oct 26, Maslova Lietacka rated it really liked it Feb 29, There are no discussion topics on this book yet. About Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. Soon, while the oboe plays an upward-lying phrase unaccompanied, the strings quickly put on their mutes for the return of the opening, much transformed.

The ending is magical as the strings play soft chords underpinned by threatening repeated Gs on the cello and a final distant flourish from the oboe. The mutes come off for the slow movement which is the emotional heart of the work. It opens very quietly with a serenely beautiful folk-sounding tune sung out molto espressivo by the first violin, warmly accompanied by the strings. Eventually the oboe sounds a plaintive improvisation, reminding us how Bax once unexpectedly heard pipe-music in a London street.

This plangent tone contrasts poignantly with the beauty of the opening and is underlined and elaborated by the strings and oboe now together. The Finale is an Irish jig, written by a composer who had seen and taken part in the real thing, though as far as is known the authentic-sounding themes were composed by Bax himself. Yet all too soon clouds cover the sun and the specters return.

The dance continues and although the ending is tossed off brilliantly we are aware that this is no mere Irish picture postcard. In no one, certainly not Bax, could fail to be torn by the horrors, the terror and the infinite sadness overshadowing the picturesque scene.

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The quartet opens with a warm, lyrical sonata typically played at a moderate tempo. The flowing quality of the music is punctuated by a rhythmic lilt suggesting the quick two-step beats of the Polka, originally a Bohemian dance. The dance qualities become more pronounced with the transitional material and the second theme. The quartet famously projects a pronounced Slavic folk character with the Second movement, Dumka subtitled Elegie.

A mournful tale begins in G minor with a soulful duet between violin and viola to the guitar-like strumming of pizzicato in the cello featuring a plangent shift between major and minor within a phrase. While not representing a specific Slavic trait, the music exhibits the heartfelt directness, warmth and finely wrought "simplicity" for which Bohemian musicians and composers have long been famous.

The languid interlude is a perfect foil for the rollicking finale, a swift rondo based on what musicologists have identified as the skacna , a Bohemian fiddle tune akin to an Irish reel with a jolly perpetual motion.

An unmistakably vivacious dance energy animates the momentum. The Telegraph Quartet was formed in with an equal passion for the standard chamber repertoire and for 20th and 21st century chamber music. Naumburg Chamber Music Award. Beyond the concert stage, the Telegraph Quartet seeks to spread its music through education and audience engagement. He is a member of the oboe and chamber music faculties of Stony Brook University and the Manhattan School of Music and is co-Artistic Director of Tertulia, a chamber music series that takes place in restaurants in New York and San Francisco.

The son of musician parents and eldest of four boys, Mr.

Smith was born in New York and raised in Connecticut. Five Pieces for String Quartet.

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