Oboe and Piano Reduction. Commissioned by the BBC for the 1973 Promenade Concerts to celebrate the 70th Birthday of the composer.

Scan... for Oboe solo by Niels Rosing-Schow - Variations on a theme from Poul Rovsing Olsen's  Planeterne (The Planets).

W. Drake Mabry has transcribed Joplin's Ragtime Dance for wind quintet. This arrangement is ideal for use in schools for young wind players at an intermediate level.

Work for Oboe Violin Viola and Cello. Parts available: CH56341.This quartet was commissioned by the Institute of Contemporary Arts and written in the autumn of 1967. It is dedicated to Lady Norton and is the second of LennoxBerkeley’s three works written with the oboist the late Janet Craxton in mind the other two being his Sonatina OP 61 and Sinfonia Concertante OP 84.The work begins with a fairly extended introduction leading without a breakinto an Allegro. The whole composition is based on the internal of a third (sometime major sometimes minor) which is heard in the opening phrase of the introduction and again in the main theme of the Allegro though here in atotally different context. The allegro is in more or less traditional sonata form. The middle movement is a kind of Scherzo growing out of a rhythmical figure for the strings and a rapid arpeggio (major and minor chords) forthe oboe. This is a Presto; a more relaxed middle section corresponding to the Trio in a classical work is followed by a much shortened version of the Scherzo. The last movement is brief but very slow all four instrumentstaking up in turn a gently rocking figure that moves to and fro between two notes always a major or minor third apart. The music becomes more animated but returns to the opening figure and dies away each instrument droppingout one after the other leaving the cello alone in the last bar.

In Greek mythology Niobe was the daughter of Tantalus and wife of Amphion King of Thebes. She unwisely boasted to Leto about her many sons and daughters. Leto who only had two children Apollo and Artemis was angered. As punishment Apollo slew Niobe's sons and Artemis her daugters. Out of pity for Niobe's inconsolable grief the Gods changed her into a rock in which form she continued to weep.In this work for solo Oboe and tape the solo Oboe takes the part of Niobe bitterly lamenting her murdered children. The tape with the distant high voices and the slow tolling bells (and later gong) is intended to provide an evocative and descriptiveaccompaniment.Niobe was commissioned by the Park Lane Group. The first performance took place at the Park Lane Concerts in January 1988.

An important and significant work written in London in 1942 and now published for the first time: 60 years later! The first movement is tuneful and full of those surprises Malcolm loves to introduce in his music. There are no shortage of jazz inspired ideas coloured always by that Arnold 'edge'. The second movement is a fiendish scherzo - full of amazing cross rhythms and of immense energy. The final movement is a March and the most emotionally charged. Clearly very strongly anti-war - severe and angry dissonances mocking fanfares angular and brutal melodic and rhythmic shapes. 'A very playable work...with plenty of interest for all the players. A greataddition to the repertoire!' AWTGrade: 8

Reflets d'Iroise est une pièce en un mouvement alternant des tempi lents et rapides (contraction de sonate), sur des modes à transpositions limitées et demi-tons comme entité harmonique (sans dodécaphonisme), dans un dialogue entre le hautbois (le marin) et le piano (la mer). La mer d'Iroise est la partie sud-est de la mer Celtique, dans l'océan Atlantique Nord. Elle s'étend à l'ouest de la Bretagne, entre la Manche (île Vierge) et le golfe de Gascogne (pointe de Penmarc'h). Parsemée d'écueils et comptant d'étroites passes à forts courants de marée, cette partie de la mer Celtique est une des zones maritimes les plus dangereuses d'Europe. L'oeuvre décrit donc ces changements de lumières et d'états pour finalement suggérer le bouillonnant Raz de l'île de Sein où les vagues claqueront en octaves successives.