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GORDON JACOB
Concerto
No.1 for Oboe
For oboe and string orchestra
|
DATE WRITTEN |
1933 for oboe and string quartet |
|
FIRST PERFORMANCE |
Oboe and
string quartet version: |
COMMENTS BY EVELYN
ROTHWELL
I used to go over to Ewell (where Jacob then lived)
very often, to try over parts of the work, and he used to ask me all
sorts of questions as to why a certain passage was difficult (or not)
and he often rewrote his first sketches. One of the things I most
admired about him was his eagerness to learn about instruments and
their likes and dislikes. For a man of his skill and eminence as a
composer, this was such a basically modest and endearing quality.
To
return to the 1st oboe concerto: I used to take parts of
it to my lessons with Leon Goossens, who immediately realised what an
excellent addition to the oboe repertoire this concerto would be.
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