Instrumental Duet,Piano Cello,Instrumental Duet,Oboe,Piano - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.973042 Composed by Francis Kayali. 20th Century,Concert. Score and parts. 15 pages. Francis Kayali #6066271. Published by Francis Kayali (A0.973042). With its plaintive oboe solo over sometimes dissonant harmonies, the autumnal slow first movement pays homage to Mahler, echoing for instance Das Lied von der Erde. In the second movement, the mood shifts to a java, a popular dance akin to a fast waltz that flourished in France between 1920 and 1960. Remaining in the minor, this movement’s circus-like levity also conveys the grittier side of mid-century Parisian nightlife. Rather inconspicuously, the java incorporates in the piano accompaniment four measures from Rachmaninoff’s Prelude in G minor (Op. 23 No. 5), ironically subverting the aristocratic march into the fold of the plebeian dance. Thus, the second movement also constitutes a nod to Mahler, who famously used klezmer music as a disruption in his First Symphony.
