March 23 Recital with Tess Menet

Here is the program for this Thursday:

Tess Menet, oboe and english horn
Christopher Foley, piano

Thursday, March 23, 8pm
Victoria Chapel, University of Toronto

Concerto in C minor by Benedetto Marcello

I. Allegro moderato
II. Adagio
III. Allegro

Sonatine pour piano by Maurice Ravel, arranged for oboe and piano by David Walter

I. Modéré
II. Mouvement de Menuet
III. Animé

Fantasia for oboe by Georg Philippe Telemann

Intermission

Parable for English Horn by Vincent Persichetti

Six Metamorphoses after Ovid for solo oboe by Benjamin Britten

I. PAN who played upon the reed pipe which was Syrinx, his beloved
II. PHAETON who rode upon the chariot of the sun for one day and was hurled into the river Padus by a thunderbolt.
III. NIOBE who, lamenting the death of her fourteen children, was turned into stone.
IV. BACCHUS at whose feasts is heard the noise of gaggling women's tattling tongues and shouting out of boys.
V. NARCISSUS who fell in love with his own image and became a flower.
VI. ARETHUSA who, flying from the love of Alpheus the river god, was turned into a fountain.

Nocturne for english horn and piano by Andre Jutras

Concertante for oboe and piano by Emile Paladilhe