- We don’t know exactly when this oboe concerto was published, except that it was before 1825. It wasn’t published during Bellini’s lifetime, and it exists as a manuscript in the San Pietro a Majella Conservatory of Music in Naples.1
- Listen for: according to Oliver Buslau, Bellini writes as though the oboe were a star in a virtuosic opera scene, with lots of dramatic, aria-like melodies.2
- Listen for: concerto ends with a polacca (or polonaise), a festive triple-meter dance tyle that originally derived from Polish folk dances.3
Sources
- Friedrich Lippmann, Mary Ann Smart, and Simon Maguire, “Bellini, Vincenzo,” Grove Music Online (Oxford University Press, 2001), accessed July 24, 2019, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000002603.
- Oliver Buslau, “Recollection of Naples,” liner notes to Bella Napoli, Christoph Hartmann, Ensemble Berlin, EMI 5 14232 2, CD, 2008.
- Harvard Dictionary of Music, 4th ed., s.v. “Polacca” (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003).
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