Description
Track 1
Gordon Crosse: Variations for Oboe and Cello ‘Little Epiphany’
Rohan de Saram (cello)
WORLD PREMIERE
Tracks 2-4 Stephen Dodgson: Quartet for Oboe and String Trio
Tagore String Trio
WORLD PREMIERE
Tracks 5-8 Peter Dickinson: Four Duos for Oboe and Cello
Rohan de Saram (cello)
WORLD PREMIERE
Tracks 9-15
Gordon Jacob: Seven Bagatelles for Solo Oboe
Track 16 Herbert Howells: Oboe Sonata
Peter Dickinson (piano)
Total time: 68’22’’
Tracks 1-15 recorded in 2014, track 16 in 1999
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‘I couldn’t be more enthusiastic about the playing. Sarah Francis and her colleagues are just magnificent. A must buy oboe collection’
John Whitmore, Music-Web International, November 2015
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‘The present collection takes a well-earned place among the long list of Sarah Francis’s previous recordings.’
Piers Burton-Page, International Record Review, March 2015
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‘This disc offers a splendid celebration of the artistry of the oboist Sarah Francis.’
‘Sarah Francis shows her love for each work in the warmth of her playing, understandingly accompanied by her various colleagues.’
Edward Greenfield, Gramophone February, 2015
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‘The mellifluosness and sheer musicality of Francis’s playing make this sequence of five works, all but one written for her, a particular pleasure.’
Paul Driver, The Sunday Times, 16th November 2014