Richardson : French Suite Oboe & Piano (Emerson)
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- Product Number: E144
- Publisher: Emerson
- Barcode: 9790570401819
- Arrangement: Oboe & Piano
Product Specs
This work was originally published by Oxford University Press, but although oboists regard it as the mainstay of the solo repertoire it was allowed to go out of print. Responding to repeated demands, Emerson Edition re-published it in 1989, together with the Roundelay which had suffered a similar fate. 'Alan had a gift for melody, and the sheer kindness of the man shines through the music'. (Double Reed News, August 1990) Alan Richardson (1904 ' 1978) was a Scottish pianist and composer. He worked for some time in Edinburgh as a pianist for the BBC before going to London to study piano and composition with Harold Craxton at the Royal Academy of Music. In 1931 he undertook a concert tour of Australia and New Zealand. He was accompanist for violinist Carl Flesch from 1936 to 1939. Richardson married renowned oboist Janet Craxton, the daughter of his teacher Harold Craxton, in 1961. He was appointed Professor of Piano at the Royal Academy of Music in 1960, a position he held until
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