Melinda Maxwell
Song for Sidney for solo oboe & two echo oboesAB AP

Adam Gorb
Freedom for oboe & harpHW

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
First Grace of Light for solo oboe

Anthony Gilbert
OS for oboe & vibraphoneRB

Martin Butler
Chaconne for solo oboe

Sir Harrison Birtwistle
An Interrupted Endless Melody for oboe & pianoSG

Edward Gregson
Shadow of Paradise for oboe & percussionRB

Larry Goves
The Tentacles of Memory for solo oboe

Simon Holt
Sphinx for cor anglais & percussionRB

Melinda Maxwell (oboe, cor anglais)
RBRichard Benjafield (percussion)
SGStephen Gutman (piano)
HWHugh Webb (harp)
ABAnna Barton (oboe)
APAlexia Pelling (oboe)

Recorded at St Paul’s Boys School, London
18 July, 1–2 August 2005

The oboist Melinda Maxwell’s first programme for Dutton Epoch in 2003 (CDLX 7139 Composer and Oboist) was a showcase for a remarkable artist. Her second survey of new music for oboe and cor anglais from the Royal Northern College of Music presents not only works by Peter Maxwell Davies and Harrison Birtwistle, but her own atmospheric Song of Sidney. Other composers include Martin Butler, Adam Gorb, Anthony Gilbert, Larry Goves, Simon Holt and Edward Gregson’s remarkable instrumental evocation of Coleridge’s poem Kubla Khan, which Gregson calls Shadow of Paradise.

"Melinda Maxwell is an outstanding musician. The range of colour and expression she brings to this music is phenomenal."
"Altogether an interesting collection, as well recorded as it is played."
Stephen Johnson, BBC Music Magazine, July 2007

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