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Ausgangspunkte (1982) |
solo oboe - 8
Ausgangspunkte, for solo oboe, was composed in 1981-82 for Christopher Redgate who gave the first performance in the Purcell Room, London on 15 April 1982.
The main musical material is developed from a series of six archetypes which are heard at the beginning of the work and are extended to control large scale formal units. The superimposing of these developmental techniques creates a music of extreme virtuosity which, however, is not considered to be of central concern to the work, rather a culmination of various extreme states of development of the materials.
Roger Redgate