Gareth Hulse and Katie Clemmow share their lifelong fascination for the oboe both at work and at home in their married life. They often sit together in the orchestra, whether on the concert platform with the London Mozart Players, in the theatre pit for the English National Ballet, in chamber performances with London Winds or in the recording studio for the BBC Concert Orchestra and they come home to a piano covered in reed-making equipment. Katie studied piano as her first love before giving priority to the oboe as her professional instrument and in this recital she partners Gareth’s oboe on piano, oboe and cor anglais with Gareth making a debut appearance as piano accompanist in his own right.
00:00 Gareth and Katie introduce their programme and their instruments
04:34 Katie and Gareth introduce…
05:32 Ave Maria by J.S. Bach (1685 - 1750) and Charles Gounod (1818 - 1893)
07:45 Gareth and Katie introduce…
08:25 Danny Boy - Traditional Irish melody
09:51 Katie introduces…
11:12 Presto by Pietro Locatelli (1695 - 1764)
12:27 Gareth and Katie introduce…
13:41 The Old Castle from “Pictures at an Exhibition” by Modest Mussorgsky (1839 - 1881)
16:18 Katie introduces…
18:13 Largo from Symphony No.9 in E minor, Op.95 “From the New World”
by Antonín Dvořák (1841 - 1904)
20:38 Gareth introduces…
two songs from “Porgy and Bess” by George Gershwin (1898 - 1937)
21:03 1) Summertime
23:42 2) It Ain’t Necessarily So
25:31 Gareth and Katie introduce…
26:17 Solveig’s Song from “Peer Gynt” Suite No.2, Op.55 by Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907)
29:25 Katie introduces…
30:22 Scarborough Fair - Traditional English ballad
31:06 Gareth introduces…
32:02 Oblivion from “Henry IV” by Ástor Piazzolla (1921 - 1992)
35:16 Katie introduces…
37:08 Allegro from Sonata in B minor, Op.2, No.5 by Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 - 1767)
39:10 Gareth introduces….
Gymnopédies Nos.1 and 3 by Erik Satie (1866 - 1925)
40:07 No.1 - Lent et douloureux
43:12 No.3 - Lent et grave
46:23 Katie introduces…
48:17 Last of the Summer Wine by Ronnie Hazelhurst (1928 - 2007)
49:49 Gareth introduces…
50:43 Gabriel’s Oboe from “The Mission” by Enrico Morricone (1928 - 2020)
A few extra programme notes:
Ave Maria: Gounod published his “Méditation sur le Premier Prélude de Piano de S. Bach” in 1853, superimposing his original melody over a very slightly adapted version of the Prelude No.1 in C major, BWV 846 from Book 1 of “The Well-Tempered Clavier” by J.S. Bach published in 1722.
Danny Boy: the Londonderry Air became famous as the ballad “Danny Boy” in 1913 when set to words by the English songwriter Frederic Weatherly.
Largo: despite the prestige of his appointment in 1892 to the directorship of the National Conservatory of Music of America in New York the Czech Dvořák became desperately homesick. In 1895, after completing his 9th Symphony, he returned to his native Bohemia.
Summertime and It Ain't Necessarily So: Gershwin composed his opera “Porgy and Bess” in 1935; these two songs with lyrics by Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward were two of its biggest hits.
Solveig's Song: Grieg created two four-movement suites in 1888 and 1891 from the full incidental music that he had composed a decade earlier for Ibsen’s play “Peer Gynt”.
Oblivion: Piazzolla composed the score for an Italian film, directed by Marco Bellocchio and entered into the 1984 Cannes Film Festival, based on Pirandello’s play “Enrico IV”. The story tells of a man who believes he is Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, and it is a study on madness.
Allegro: It’s small wonder that Telemann styled his six Sonatas Op.2 as suitable for flutes or violins as he himself not only played both these instruments but also the viola da gamba, oboe, trombone, double bass and several keyboard instruments, mostly self taught.
Gymnopédies: Satie composed three Gymnopédies for solo piano; he published the first and third in 1888, No.2 appeared later in 1895.
Ronnie Hazelhurst joined the BBC in 1961 and became a staff arranger, composing the theme tunes for many famous shows including Last of the Summer Wine that ran to 295 episodes from 1973 to 2010, the longest running comedy programme in the UK.
Gabriel's Oboe: Morricone won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score with his music for the 1986 film directed by Roland Joffé.
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