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Part of the Signals collection

New British music for solo oboe, aimed at university and conservatoire-level students and professionals.
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I. A mountain
II. Fixation
III. Flowers
IV. Fountains

Metamorphoses after Britten is just that: four miniatures, each inspired by one of Benjamin Britten’s Six Metamorphoses after Ovid for solo oboe. Each movement, over its short course, transforms gradually from one thing to another, ending, with the exception of Fountains, in a short, cathartic coda. Some of the movements also take specific musical elements from Britten’s pieces.

I very much viewed these pieces as musical Haiku, and in that sense I hope they embody a sense of peace, brevity and simplicity.

Any number of movements from this set can performed on their own, in any combination that makes musical sense to the performer. Different versions of this piece for oboe, saxophone, clarinet and bassoon, are available separately.

Metamorphoses after Britten (in the original version for oboe) is dedicated to Melinda Maxwell, who premiered it at the University of York, November 2010.

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Duration
9 minutes
Premiere

Melinda Maxwell, University of York, November 2010

Scoring
1 Oboe
Composition date
2010

Performances

30 June 2013

LSO St Luke’s, 161 Old St., London EC1V 9NG

Ashot Sarkissjan, The London Sprechchor. Melinda Maxwell, Leigh Melrose, The Warehouse Ensemble, Ligeti Quartet and others, conducted by Richard Baker

20 November 2010

Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York

Melinda Maxwell