Music For Oboe Bassoon & Piano (Score & Parts)

Eben Music For Oboe Bassoon & Piano (Score & Parts)

I wrote the one-movement-Music for oboe, Bassoon and Piano in 1970, commissioned by the Stockholm agency Rikskonserter for my tour of Sweden.  I chose a less frequent combination of instruments than the usual classical music trio.  It seemed to me that the oboe and bassoon go better with today’s piano than do string instruments, and I tried particularly to bring out this homogeneity of sounds.  Thus, for instance, the high oboe tone is combined with the sound of the piano in the same registers - both staccato and legato, and analogously, the sound of the low bassoon with the low piano, exactly the opposite way a normal solo and accompaniment would have been conceived.  Sometimes the two voices of the woodwind instruments are contrasted with the piano’s two voices and they mutually interpenetrate each other.
 
But the composition was to have had a concert character with more glamorous instrumental stylisation, which is why it includes solo cadenzas - for the oboe at the beginning and the bassoon at the end of the work.  (Petr Eben)