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Apollinaire's Bird

Concerto for oboe and orchestra
oboe and orchestra
Edition: Performance material

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The poetry of Guillaume Apollinaire, a significant figure in the avantgarde movements of the early 20th century and soldier in the First World War, has a special quality of bringing the strange and the ordinary together. Apollinaire’s Bird takes as its basis the poem Un oiseau chante [A bird sings], which contrasts the realities of war with hearing a single bird singing. The solo oboe sings the song of the bird: the single voice that transports the mind of the soldier beyond the grim situation of the trenches. To begin, the orchestra evokes the blackness of the landscape with searing high notes that cut through the texture, but, in dialogue with the oboe, it too draws us elsewhere, away from this world, to a world that is never far away. John Casken

Orchestral Cast

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Title:
Apollinaire's Bird
Concerto for oboe and orchestra
Edition:
Performance material
Awards:
Dec 9, 2015
British Composer Award

Shortlisted Orchestral Category 2015

Publisher/Label:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
2013
Duration:
20 ′
World Premiere:
April 10, 2014 · Manchester (UK)
Bridgewater Hall
Stéphane Rancourt, oboe · Conductor: Mark Elder · Hallé Orchestra

Commissioned work :
Commissioned by the Hallé

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Product number:
LSL 10361

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  • Apollinaire's Bird
    Conductor: Sir Mark Elder
    Orchestra: Hallé Orchestra
    April 8, 2016 | Nottingham (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
  • Apollinaire's Bird
    Conductor: Sir Mark Elder
    Orchestra: Hallé Orchestra
    April 7, 2016 | Manchester (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , The Bridgewater Hall
    19:30
  • Apollinaire's Bird
    Conductor: Mark Elder
    Orchestra: Hallé Orchestra
    April 10, 2014 | Manchester (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , Bridgewater Hall — World Premiere
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