YEAR: 2026

 

DURATION: 3′

 

INSTRUMENTATION: Oboe, Descant Recorder (or Piccolo), String Quartet

 

NOTES: This is one of several new works commissioned by John Turner, in memory of his wife Margaret.  It opens with the winds in their natural home, the pastoral oboe and the playful recorder. They gradually start to respond to each other’s ideas, and reverse their roles by the end.