Oboe Quartet

<p>Inspired by Mozart's own oboe quartet, this ambitious work in three movements was developed subsequent to numerous oboe showpieces, including the Oboe Concerto (2023).&nbsp;</p><p>The first movement, the longest, explores two contrasting themes, the first providing a melodic foundation for the other movements as well.</p><p>The slow second movement, inspired by a sentence by writer Tommaso Landolfi (“Verso il crepuscolo, quando finalmente le cose assumono il volume e il contorno che loro compete...”), is a crepuscular cavatina.</p><p>The third movement is a rondò-tarantella that resumes and closes the quartet, dispensing drama, humour and swing accents.</p><p>While all instruments are called to contribute with expressive solos, the oboe is obviously the lead, and has cadences in the first and third movement.</p>