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Author: gabriel'soboe
Date: 2006-01-10 19:32
Hello there
I mentioned in a previous posting the existence of a SACD performed by Bart Schneemann: the volume 2 of Ludwig August Lebrun's oboe concertos. I bought this item for the encore offered at the end: Beethoven's Largo in F Major (Hess 12). I found it to be a rather serene piece and above all a pleasant work for oboe, well worth the discovery. The liner notes alas don't say much about this unearthed piece. Here is what Schneemann himself wrote about it:
"(and a bit more about my "Beethoven obsession": the bad news is that I still haven't found that Beethoven concerto ! But there is good news as well: 2 Netherlands musicologists, Cees Nieuwenhuizen and Jos van der Zanden, basing their work on Beethoven's autograph sketches (discovered in the Beethoven House in Bonn), have made a reconstruction of the Largo movement of the concerto. The manuscript shows a good part of the melody, some accompagnement and a full cadenza. We know that the concerto had its premiere in Bonn around 1790, and that it was probably played by a traveling oboe virtuoso. It might just have been Lebrun...)"
This slow movement has a duration of 7'. Finding the complete work seems to be Schneemann's own quest for the Holy Grail ! He pointed out the following in his liner notes: "We know for sure that the young Beethoven wrote an oboe concerto, but where is it ? Is it somewhere in someone's attic in a big box ? Stuck behing the wallpaper ? Was it burnt ? Was it ruined by a flood ? Or is the handwriting unrecognizable ? In short, the trials and tribulations (for the oboist, of course)."
Greetings
Laurent
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