Alexander Voormolen - Concerto for two oboes and orchestra

Alexander Voormolen (1895-1980) Concerto : per 2 oboi e orchestra (1933) 1. Allegro - 00:00 2. Arioso: Andantino cantabile - 10:06 3. Rondo: Vivo allegretto - 16:13 Pauline Oostenrijk, oboe Hans Roerade, oboe Orchestra: Residentie Orchestra The Hague Conductor: Matthias Bamert Alexander Voormolen was a Dutch composer. He studied composition in Utrecht with Johan Wagenaar and with Willem and Martinus. In 1916, on the recommendation of Rhené Baton (who conducted his overture to Maeterlinck’s La mort de Tintagiles at The Hague in 1916), he went to Paris, where he worked with Roussel and became close to Ravel, Casella, Delius and Florent Schmitt. He returned to settle in the Netherlands in 1920, first in Veere and moved to The Hague in 1923. For many years he was music critic for the Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant, and then from 1938 to 1955 he was librarian of the Conservatory of The Hague. Voormolen’s first works (those from the years 1915--1925) show a chromatic harmonic style influenced by Debussy, Ravel and Delius, and also an early return to Baroque forms. In addition, after 1919 he drew increasingly on Dutch folksong, as in the piano suite Tableaux des Pays-Bas (1919, 1924). In the 1920s Voormolen searched for a more individual, typically Dutch style, one that was permeated with old tunes, the sound of the Dutch carillon, and that evoked the atmosphere and elegance of the Dutch Baroque. This resulted in such popular scores as the Baron Hop suites (1924, 1931), the orchestral variations De drie ruitertjes (1927), the concertos for one or two oboes (1938) and the symphonic poems Een zomerlied (1928), Arethuza (1947) and Eline (1957).