ELLIOTT CARTER OBOE CONCERTO HENDON MUSIC RoosevestawkESELLIOTT CARTER OBOE CONCERTO Full Score HENDON MUSIC RoosevestawkE‘To Paul Sacher PROGRAM NOTE In this OBOE CONCERTO, which is in one continuous movement, the soloist is accompanied in its widely varying, mercurial moods by a percussionist and four violas. The main orchestra opposes their flighty changes with a more regular series of ideas, usually on the serious side, sometimes bursting out dramatically. Each of the two groups use different musical materials which they develop throughout the work Lam deeply grateful to Paul Sacher for having proposed and commissioned this con- certo and to Heinz Holliger, for whom it was commissioned, for his advice about the instrument and his wonderful performances. The work was composed during part of 1986.87, Elliott Carter First performed June 17,1988, a the Grosser Tonhallesaal in Zurich by oboist Heinz. Holliger and the Zurich Collegium Musicum under the direction of John Carewe. Recorded by Heinz Holliger and Ensemble InterContemporain under the direction of Pierre Boulez on ERATO ECD 75553. he ae hs pubeston nee minimum aeons Amarin Nara Sanat 1 nan SencestPomanence a Paper br Pe brary Mara, NS! 8 888