LOKK - Pastoral Music for Oboe David Friedemann Strunck

• David Friedemann Strunck: Lokk after Grieg:
• 1 Strunck: Lokk after Grieg 00:51
• Eugène Bozza (1905 - 1991): Fantasie pastorale, Op. 37:
• 2 Bozza: Fantasie pastorale, Op. 37 06:10
• David Friedemann Strunck: Lokk after Gjendines bådnlåt:
• 3 Strunck: Lokk after Gjendines bådnlåt 00:40
• Julius Röntgen (1855 - 1932): Hirtenlied (Pastoral song) for Oboe and Strings:
• 4 Röntgen: Hirtenlied (Pastoral song) for Oboe and Strings 04:05
• Benjamin Godard (1849 - 1895): Scènes écossaises, Op. 138:
• 5 Godard: Scènes écossaises, Op. 138: I. Légende Pastorale 06:16
• 6 Godard: Scènes ècossaises, Op. 138: II. Sérénade à Mabel 02:25
• 7 Godard: Scènes écossaises, Op. 138: III. Marche des Highlanders 04:31
• David Friedemann Strunck: Lokk after Marit Jensen Lillebuen:
• 8 Strunck: Lokk after Marit Jensen Lillebuen 00:40
• Carl Gustav Sparre Olsen (1903 - 1984): Pastorale, Op. 64, No. 1 for Oboe Solo:
• 9 Olsen: Pastorale, Op. 64, No. 1 for Oboe Solo 03:46
• Josef Gabriel Rheinberger (1839 - 1901): Andante Pastorale for Oboe and Organ (after Organ Sonata No. 4, Op. 98:
• 10 Rheinberger: Andante Pastorale for Oboe and Organ (after Organ Sonata No. 4, Op. 98: II. Intermezzo. Andantino) 05:08
• David Friedemann Strunck: Lokk after a Call to Prayer, Tunisia:
• 11 Strunck: Lokk after a Call to Prayer, Tunisia 00:42
• Camille Saint-Säens (1835 - 1921): Sonate, Op. 166 for Oboe and Piano:
• 12 Säens: Sonate, Op. 166 for Oboe and Piano: I. Andantino 03:12
• 13 Säens: Sonate, Op. 166 for Oboe and Piano: II. Ad libitum - Allegretto - Ad libitum 05:12
• 14 Säens: Sonate, Op. 166 for Oboe and Piano: III. Molto allegro 02:36
• Josef Gabriel Rheinberger: Rhapsodie, Andante for Oboe and Organ (after Organ Sonata No. 7, Op. 127: II. Andante):
• 15 Rheinberger: Rhapsodie, Andante for Oboe and Organ (after Organ Sonata No. 7, Op. 127: II. Andante) 06:19
• David Friedemann Strunck: Lokk after Shofar's Call:
• 16 Strunck: Lokk after Shofar's Call 00:46
• Kjell Mørk Karlsen (b. 1947): Sonatina for Oboe and Piano, Op. 44:
• 17 Karlsen: Sonatina for Oboe and Piano, Op. 44: I. Fable 04:40
• 18 Karlsen: Sonatina for Oboe and Piano, Op. 44: II. Rhapsody 03:35
• 19 Karlsen: Sonatina for Oboe and Piano, Op. 44: III. Pastorale 04:39
• Joseph Noyon (1888 - 1962): Concertino Pastorale (dit du cou cou) for Oboe and Organ:
• 20 Noyon: Concertino Pastorale (dit du cou cou) for Oboe and Organ: I. Allegretto con moto 02:46
• 21 Noyon: Concertino Pastorale (dit du cou cou) for Oboe and Organ: II. Poco adagio molto espressivo [très librement] 03:07
• 22 Noyon: Concertino Pastorale (dit du cou cou) for Oboe and Organ: III. Gai 02:05
• Total Runtime 01:14:11

Info for LOKK - Pastoral Music for Oboe

Lokk is the Norwegian greeting for lokkerop som ble brukt av budeier og gjetere. Tradisjonelt praktisert in fjellområder, og selv den dag i dag, ble lokk brukt av gjetere for å nå ut til, tiltrekke og samle husdyr over long avstander. Gjeterne brukte ducks eller et instrument for å samle flokken, og på en måte kan lokk sees på som en musikalsk sjanger. The rope and the same bath are men's and the external pastoral scene has a noticeable influence on classical music.

If you listen to pastoral music, you can listen to it for a longer time in the Sinfonia for the other cantaten in Bach's Juleoratorio. Her fremkaller oboe's melody forms av gjeterne ved stallen i Bethlehem. Inspirasjonen til å bruke oboen for pastoral uttrykk stammer sannsynligvis fra Italy, der gjetere fra landsbygda kom til Roma i juletiden for å spille piffero, et folkeinstrument som ligner på skalmeien, i gatene. Selv om forms av pastorale endret seg betydelig etter baroque, forble oboes sound not knyttet til denne sjangeren. This is why he is an overarching composer in his own period and also has a bruke oboe for his talents. Oboes (and the same tilfellet and angel horn) Finner sin with betydningsfulle pastorale role in orkesterlitteraturen and tredje sats av Berlioz' Symphonie fantastique. Her finner vi to gjetere (spilt av obo og engelsk horn) som samtaler over en ganske fri 6/8 takt, and set up the pastoral stemningen in satsen.

Selv om skalmeien var det mest tradisjonelle gjeterinstrumentet, var lur og bukkehorn mer utbredt som gjeterinstrumenter in Norge. Mens tradition with lokk ble practiced with light, ble the first and last utført with menneskestemmen. Norsk folk music and traditional music from forkjellige lokkemelodier.

Å improvisere en lokk på obo er derfor et forsøk på culturally tilnærming. Gjennom active musical and cultural utveksling har oboen andså fat sin plass som et pastoralt instrument in norsk classical music. The oboes sounded great, but there was a lot of history from the Rottefangeren fra Hameln, and they were played for a long time. The most powerful device from the Rottefangeren viser is with a skalmei, the oboe and instrument for the lokke skapninger are also very useful.

David Friedemann Strunck, oboe
Christian Ihle Hadland, piano
Lars Notto Birkeland,organ
Ensemble Allegria
Oslo Kammerakademi
Maria Angelika Carlsen, artist director

David Friedemann Strunck
grew up in Dortmund in Germany. The potential music lends to express oneself motivated him strongly to become a musician:

I think the experience I had as a young musician to be able to liberate my own creativity and my own musical voice through playing an instrument was one of the most important inspirations to choose a musical path.

He studied music in Detmold and Stuttgart, and has over the years been inspired by many role models amongst his teachers, colleagues, conductors and the musicians he has experienced on stage.

If I have to pick out one of them, it would be my teacher from my studies in Stuttgart, Ingo Goritzki. He was a role model for me as a musician, person and teacher.

Today, David loves to teach himself and teaches students from the acedemy section and from the young talent program of Barratt Due Music Institute.

After his studies, David worked as Principal Oboist in Bochum Symphony Orchestra. He has also been a soloist with several orchestras and is artistic director of Oslo Chamber Academy.

It gives me great pleasure when I'm able to sing through my instrument.

Baroque music has always spoken to me

In 2004 he was engaged as Principal Oboist with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, and he didn’t have to wait long for exciting challenges:

The greatest experience I have had with the orchestra so far has been to perform Alpine Symphony by Richard Strauss in Musikverein in Vienna in the autumn of 2004. I was new in the orchestra and had to jump in for a sick colleague. It was the first time i played in the world’s most magnificent concert hall, and it was my first Alpine Symphony, and I almost had no time to rehearse. André Previn was the Chief Conductor at the time.

The music which lies closest to his heart is to be found a little outside the orchestra’s core repertoire:

We don’t play much of this music, but Baroque music has always spoken to me. I’ve grown to love all kinds of music, but I still enjoy searching for the music’s fundamental, rhetorical expression, which is especially evident in early music.

In January 2016, LAWO Classics will release a CD including Mozart's oboe quartet at oboe concertos by Ketil Hvoslef and Harald Sæverud with the Oslo Philharmonic, conductor Arvid Engegård and with David as soloist.

David loves Norwegian nature, and when he isn’t playing, he loves walking. He also enjoys skiing in the winter.

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