Marcello Oboe Concert II. “Adagio” – Digital Performance

 Long ago, about 50 years ago, I lived on Île Saint-Louis in Paris for a while.  It was around the time when one franc was a little over 80 yen, I believe. After dinner, while I was wrapping up the day's work, I would always listen to Radio France or Antenne 2 (my memory is a little fuzzy). I remember that the music played at the end of the station's broadcast was Marcello's Oboe Concerto, Adagio in the second movement. Whenever this music came on, I would always go to bed...it was a habit. In the mornings, I was supposed to wake up to the 6 o'clock bells of Notre-Dame Cathedral on the neighboring Île de la Cité, but for some reason, that sound hasn’t left much of an impression on me. Strangely enough, every time I listen to this Adagio, for some reason I remember the night view of the black chimneys from the window of my room. I have forgotten everything else, though. So I decided to perform the Adagio from the second movement of Marcello's Oboe Concerto in D minor, which has left a nostalgic impression on me. It seems to be considered as one of the two major Adagios along with Albinoni's Adagio , which I sequenced earlie

 The ornaments Bach added when arranging this piece for harpsichord (BWV 974) are truly remarkable and seem to have dramatically transformed the original work.  There are many CDs available, and most of them use this ornamentation. In those days, however, it was common practice to use ornaments instead of the score. Here, I sequenced the oboe according to Bach's ornamentation. However, it seems that the progression of harmony differs greatly depending on the score (arrangement).

 Now, for the main oboe sound library, I decided to use the Oboe from Audio Modeling's SWAM Double Reeds, a physical sound library. The SWAM wind instruments have come a long way compared to their solo strings, so I thought they were useful enough. As for the strings, I used LA SCORING STRINGS 3, a sampling sound library from Audiobro, which I have used before. It has become very easy to use since version 3 was released.

      曲名:Oboe Concerto in D minor, S D935 
      Sound Source: SWAM Oboe v.3, LA SCORING STRINGS 3
      Audio file format:mp3(for those who listen directly on a PC)

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