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concerto no. 2 in a minor for guitar and oboe - movement no. 3
(note - this same track also appears on the pureambient album SSDL1753 "music for apps: notion - an eternal album" as track 4)
track: 13
recorded: 20140323 - 20140816
duration: 10:16
(also available on the music for apps: notion eternal album)
finally, after far too long of an interval, the third and final movement of my "concerto no. 2 in a minor for guitar and oboe" is complete, and I'm happy to say that it's brought the entire piece to a most satisfactory close - I am very pleased with the result.
in the end, the third movement became the longest to write, the longest to score, the longest to work out - far exceeding the first two movements in duration - in fact, it's actually longer than the two of them combined - but this brings the entire concerto to just under twenty minutes, which is a good place to be.
this has been such an incredibly positive experience, and as I continue to work on my classical repertoire, I hope I will just get better and better at it - I am learning, all the time, and I feel that this hard-won third movement is possibly my best-yet piece of classical music, it ticks a lot of boxes for me personally, in particular, the returning themes; the interplay between classical guitar and oboe - and that lonely, plaintive oboe itself, the sound of hope and yearning tinged with sadness...what a beautiful instrument.
I really do enjoy classical music where the oboe is featured, it's not really a standard thing, it appeared rather late in the day, this idea that the oboe could play one of the solo parts in a concerto, but I for one, think it's a great idea!
I will probably move to another pairing for my next classical piece, but that remains unknown, for now, I am very happy to be presenting at last, the final piece of the puzzle of my second concerto, "concerto no. 2 in a minor for guitar and oboe". I hope you enjoy listening to it half as much as I enjoyed scoring and recording it.
ambient loop guitarist dave stafford performed on stage with robert fripp and the orchestra of crafty guitarists in early
2009, and again with robert fripp and the symphony of crafty guitarists in 2015, and has worked with ambient music and looping for over twenty years. stafford has a rich back catalogue of ambient and loop music, +rock, prog or acoustic crafty guitar music: www.pureambient.com...more
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