Author: oboist2
Date: 2006-04-17 07:14
The piece is very atmospheric - I dont believe there is necessarily a wrong way of doing it - Janet Craxton, from all the oboists I have heard plays this and the rest of the pieces, more convincingly. Visualise a hot dry mediterranean summer's day, around midday. Its fairly motionless, Pan, is propped up under a tree with a pan pipe or aulos or other such pipe. He is improvising, for his own pleasure. He plays with it, teases it - although there is a measure, I think its only to give a general idea of the shape in this 1st piece. Really let your imagination go, be tasteful, no great bumps or gushes required. I do not have my music out as its packed away - but about 2/3 way through there is a few groups of repeated notes marked staccatissimo- Craxton treats these very well, a little like a ping pong ball being dropped on a hard surface and being allowed to bounce - the efect is great - there is a 3 note figure at the end of that passage, a kind of appodiatura, from memory its a top A-G-A - if you make the last one a harmonic, the effect is magic. Have fun but do not be too intense or wooden about this piece - that approach kills it stone dead.
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