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Hi @gmm ! Wonderful and ethereal piece you've presented! It has a sense of floating and the rhythms are very well chosen, never giving an impression of mechanicality but of an inspired flow. I do agree with Luis that the violins would sound better with harmonics or perhaps sul ponticello, sul tasto or muted. Thanks for sharing and glad to see that you're delving into writing smaller ensemble works!

Hi all, Here's short lament I composed for solo Oboe .... when some notes during my warm up tweaked my interest. As always comments always appreciated. Mark (Oboe is computer generated...although I have played it 😉) Oboe Lament6-30-26.mp3 Oboe Lament6-30-26.pdf

Not nitpicks at all. I did think about the notation(s). Thank you for comments ... they are most welcome! Mark

Hi Mark! Quite an interesting and chromatic solo oboe piece you've presented! I am wondering if you just arbitrarily decided to use only flats for this piece? It seems to me like, given it's highly chromatic nature, both flats and sharps would have been appropriate. Then there's also the Cb's you used in meas. 10 & 27 which to me should quite obviously be B naturals. In fact this whole phrase here: to me would have been better notated with a B natural, G#, F# and E since this would make the distances between all the tones more obvious (the distance between the Gb and E is a diminished 3rd which to me would just have been way nicer spelled as just a regular major 2nd). Likewise here: you could have spelled the E as well as an Fb perhaps? That would make the intervals between all the tones more obvious in this phrase. The Db in the 2nd measure could also have been a C# given the minor 3rd distance to E. Those are all just my personal enharmonic nitpicks for this piece. Overall, I enjoyed listening to this even though I usually don't enjoy solo instrument piece unless they're polyphonic. Thanks for sharing!

I'm sorry there hasn't been more comments on this very ambitious project. The orchestration is quite overwhelming. I wonder if more could have been accomplished with less. When I listened to the work mostly straight through .... I was looking/listening for a central prominent integrative theme(s) to guide me.... Did I miss something here? Mark

This is an ambitious and challenging work. It reminds me of two pieces I saw workshopped earlier this year, as part of the LSO's Panufnik Scheme (at least in terms of complexity of the scoring). Not sure I can offer anything useful, since your scoring is far more advanced than mine! I did spot one or two issues in the engraving that you're probably already aware of. These were: A misspelling on Page 2 ('deturned' instead of 'detuned' in the Viola instructions). Awkward beaming alignment in Bar 35 of the celesta part (one of the noteheads seems to be floating away from the beam, and is missing a stalk). Misaligned brackets in Bars 31 and 32 of the Doublebass part. Bar 74 and elsewhere: not sure why you write Celest' instead of Celesta? Looks a bit odd. Musically I really enjoyed it, and liked how you used the extended techniques. These were not there just for the sake of it; but to create a useful effect within the narrative of the music. I had to look up some of your directions (like gioiosamente), as I'd never seen them before! Sorry I can't be of more help, Alex

I certainly appreciate you guys for taking the time to listen/read it over for a second / third time. I understand that gets a bit redundant, when it comes to reviewing others' works. So I wanted to make sure to express my gratitude :) -Unc

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