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Title - 'Concertos for Oboe'
Artist - Mary Lynch / Harrison Linsey

For those not in the know, equally adept at writing music for the concert hall, film, television, and the theatre, Christopher Tyler Nickel’s award-winning music has been heard in over 160 countries.

Indeed, his experience as an oboist instills a confidence to compose with an exhilarating freedom to explore the vast expressive range of the instrument, from lyrical and plaintive to acerbic and brittle.

On the just-released Concertos for Oboe (out now via AVIE Records), the world-premiere recordings of these three concertos for oboe and its lower-pitched siblings the oboe damore and bass oboe receive dazzling performances by Mary Lynch, principal oboe of the Seattle Symphony, and Harrison Linsey, oboist with the Washington D.C.-based National Symphony Orchestra.

Grammy Award-winning David Sabee, a tireless advocate of contemporary classical music, conducts the Seattle-based Northwest Sinfonia.

Christopher Tyler Nickel (b. 1978)
Concerto for Oboe (2012)
1. I. Andante (forcefully) (9.59)
2. II. Andante (8.11)
3. III. Allegro (with driving energy) (10.28)

Concerto for Oboe d’amore (2014)
4. I. Andante (5.57)
5. II. Andante misterioso – Andante agitato – Andante (12.20)

Concerto for Bass Oboe (2016)
6. I. Andante (9.15)
7. II. Adagio (5.34)
8. III. Allegro agitato (6.50)
Total time: 68.52

Opening with the three pieces of Concerto for Oboe (2012), the euphoric majesty of Andante (forcefully) is backed by the more understated wonderment of the second work of Andante, with the powerful urgency of Allegro (with driving energy) rounding the work out beautifully.

Full of life, hopes, dreams and inventive imagination abounding throughout, next we get the two pieces that make up Concerto for Oboe d’amore (2014).

Opening with the quietly awe inspiring Andante, its second work, the quiet soothing, delicately soaring trio of Andante misterioso – Andante agitato – Andante, make this one of my own personal favorites.

These magnificent variations and rather, at times, beautifully arresting compositions, then round out with the masterful Concerto for Bass Oboe (2016).

Opening with the quietly ornate passion of Andante, the yearning of Adagio is next brought forth, with the more pronounced, deliberately agitated, at times, yet perky and broad stroked tones, of Allegro agitato then closing the work.

You can order Concertos for Oboe now at www.Avie-Records.

www.marylynchoboe.comcom

Harrison Linsey @ www.kennedy-center.org

www.Avie-Records.com





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