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Composer  Britten, Benzamin      ( 1913 - 1976)
Work(s) Metamorphoses (6) after Ovid, Op. 49
Description

Six Metamorphoses after Ovid (for solo Oboe)

1. PAN
who played upon the reed pipe which was Syrinx, his beloved

2. PHAETON
who made upon the chariot of the sun for one day and was hurled into
the river Padus by a thunderbolt

3. NIOBE
Who, lamenting the death of her fourteen children, was turned into a mountain

4. BACCHUS
at whose feast is heard the noise of gaggling women¡¯s tattling tongues and shouting
out of boys

5. NARCISSUS
who fell in love with his own image and became a flower

6. ARETHUSA
who, flying from the love of Alpheus the river god, was turned into a fountain

(* Data: Hyperion Records Ltd.)



                 Disc(s) with this work(s)
No. Performance Information Label/No. Format
1 Robin Canter (oboe)
IMP/6600962 CD
2 Roy Carter (oboe)
EMI/573989 2CD
3 Sarah Francis (oboe)
Hyperion/55154 CD
4 Gordon Hunt (oboe)
BIS/769 CD
5 Helen Jahren (oboe)
BIS/737 CD
6 Lajos Lencsés (English horn)
Cadenza/800 915 CD
7 John Mack (oboe)
Crystal Records/323 CD
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