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CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FOR OBOE

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Contemporary music for Oboe

CONTEMPORARY OBOE REPERTOIRE

CHAMBER MUSIC WITH OBOE

CHAMBER MUSIC FOR OBOE


Fizzy
10'30" | oboe and piano

Jongleurs       (coming up)
10' | reed trio | oboe, clarinet and bassoon 

Mysterious Pond
10' | flute, oboe and piano

​Garden of  Lost Yearnings
8'30"| alto flute, English horn, bass clarinet and piano

Six Short Stories for Woodwind Quintet
12' | flute / piccolo, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon

Flashes of Decay
for chamber ensemble
12' | flute / piccolo; English horn; clarinet / bass clarinet; horn; tuba; percussion (2); harp; piano

Tetris
for double wind quintet
18' | 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 horns, 2 bassoons

Three Episodes for Chamber Ensemble
for chamber ensemble
12' | flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, percussion (1), piano, violin, viola, cello and double bass
 

Lior Navok's works enrich modern chamber music with oboe, including contemporary oboe chamber music, chamber music with oboe, and new chamber music featuring oboe. His compositions span from oboe and strings chamber music to avant-garde chamber music with oboe, offering innovative pieces for oboe in contemporary ensembles and orchestras.

STAGE MUSIC WITH OBOE

STAGE MUSIC WITH OBOE
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The Adventures of Pinocchio

for three actors and woodwind quintet / orchestra

61' | 3 actors (F,M,M), flute / piccolo, oboe / English horn, clarinet, horn, bassoon and piano

OR:

3 actors (F,M,M), flute / piccolo, oboe / English-horn, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, percussion (1), harp, piano, strings

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Sheet Music for Oboe:

List of Key 20th–21st Century Oboe Repertoire

  • Berio, Luciano – Sequenza VII – 1969 (solo oboe)

  • Britten, Benjamin – Six Metamorphoses after Ovid, Op. 49 – 1951 (solo oboe)

  • Britten, Benjamin – Temporal Variations – 1936 (oboe and piano)

  • Bowen, York – Sonata for Oboe and Piano, Op. 85 – 1927 (oboe and piano)

  • Carter, Elliott – Oboe Concerto – 1987 (oboe and orchestra)

  • Carter, Elliott – Pastoral – 1940 (solo oboe or English horn)

  • Corigliano, John – Oboe Concerto – 1975 (oboe and orchestra)

  • Damase, Jean-Michel – Sonatine for Oboe and Piano – 1957 (oboe and piano)

  • Denisov, Edison – Oboe Concerto – 1986 (oboe and orchestra)

  • Doráti, Antal – Oboe Sonata – 1984 (oboe and piano)

  • Dring, Madeleine – Three Pieces for Oboe and Piano – 1968 (oboe and piano)

  • Dutilleux, Henri – Sonate pour hautbois et piano – 1947 (oboe and piano)

  • Francesconi, Luca – Da Capo (Oboe Concerto) – 2002 (oboe and orchestra)

  • Frances-Hoad, Cheryl – A Refusal to Mourn – 2000 (oboe and orchestra)

  • Haas, Pavel – Suite for Oboe and Piano – 1939 (oboe and piano)

  • Harbison, John – Oboe Concerto – 1991 (oboe and orchestra)

  • Higdon, Jennifer – Oboe Concerto – 2005 (oboe and orchestra)

  • Hindemith, Paul – Sonata for Oboe and Piano – 1938 (oboe and piano)

  • Holliger, Heinz – Studie über Mehrklänge – 1971 (solo oboe)

  • Howells, Herbert – Oboe Sonata – 1942 (oboe and piano)

  • Jacob, Gordon – Seven Bagatelles – 1971 (solo oboe)

  • Krenek, Ernst – Sonatina for Oboe Alone – 1956 (solo oboe)

  • Lorentzen, Bent – Oboe Concerto – 1980 (oboe and orchestra)

  • MacMillan, James – Oboe Concerto – 2010 (oboe and orchestra)

  • Maderna, Bruno – Oboe Concerto No. 1 – 1962 (oboe and orchestra)

  • Maderna, Bruno – Solo for Oboe – 1969 (solo oboe)

  • Musgrave, Thea – Helios – 1994 (oboe and orchestra)

  • Musgrave, Thea – Impromptu for Oboe and Piano – 1967 (oboe and piano)

  • Neikrug, Marc – Oboe Concerto – 2017 (oboe and orchestra)

  • Nordheim, Arne – Boomerang – 1985 (oboe and orchestra)

  • Poulenc, Francis – Sonata for Oboe and Piano, FP 185 – 1962 (oboe and piano)

  • Rosso, Silvia Corinna – Lamento – 2006 (solo oboe)

  • Roxburgh, Edwin – Aulodie – 1977 (solo oboe)

  • Salonen, Esa-Pekka – Mimo II – 1992 (oboe and orchestra)

  • Silvestrini, Gilles – Études for Oboe – 1997 (solo oboe)

  • Siqueira, José – Three Etudes for Oboe with Piano Accompaniment – 1957 (oboe and piano)

  • Slavický, Klement – Suite for Oboe and Piano – 1958 (oboe and piano)

  • Strauss, Richard – Oboe Concerto in D major, TrV 292 – 1945 (oboe and orchestra)

  • Vaughan Williams, Ralph – Concerto for Oboe and Strings – 1944 (oboe and strings)

  • Weir, Judith – Oboe Concerto – 2018 (oboe and orchestra)

  • Yun, Isang – Piri – 1971 (solo oboe)

  • Zimmermann, Bernd Alois – Concerto for Oboe and Small Orchestra – 1952 (oboe and small orchestra)

  • Zimmermann, Bernd Alois – Concerto for Oboe and Piano – 1952 (oboe and piano)

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