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Programme Notes

My Second Oboe Quartet was promised to the Berlin Oboe Quartet after a performance which they gave of my first quartet in January 1988. Composed in the autumn of 1989, the work is, like the earlier quartet, in a single movement, with quite a complex structure of overlapping variations; but the oboe has more of a concertante role, and the music is on the whole faster and more concentrated. It lasts around 9 minutes. The first performance was given by the Berlin Oboe Quartet in a Park Lane Group Concert in the Purcell Room, London, in February 1990.

Colin Matthews

Oboe Quartet No.2

St. Paul's Church (Winchester, United Kingdom)

London Bridge Trio/Olivier Stankiewicz

Oboe Quartet No.2

Also: Knussen's Fire. Radio 3 in concert

BBC Radio 3 (United Kingdom)

Britten Oboe Quartet/Adam Walker

Oboe Quartet No.2

Also: Knussen's Fire

Britten Studio (Snape, Suffolk, United Kingdom)

Britten Oboe Quartet/Adam Walker

Oboe Quartet No.2

Ernst Krenek Institut (Krems an der Donau, Niederösterreich, Austria)

Berlin Oboe Quartet

Oboe Quartet No.2

10am

Wigmore Hall (London, United Kingdom)

Musicians from the RNCM