qua resurget ex favilla
Sonata for Oboe and Piano
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qua resurget ex favilla
Sonata for Oboe and Piano
- Instrumentation Oboe and Piano
- Edition Score and Parts
- Publisher Theodore Presser Company
- Order no. PRES114-42252
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After decades as a renowned oboe virtuoso, Katherine Needleman was improvising at the piano during the quarantine summer of 2020 when her ideas congealed in a powerful way. Within a week she completed a 16-minute oboe sonata inspired by the world's overlapping crises. This riveting three-movement sonata bears the title qua resurget ex favilla, drawn from the Dies Irae text referring to rising back from ashes. Needleman won the International Double Reed Society's Inaugural Commissioning Competition by entering her own recording of this work (https://youtu.be/qnegT7SzQak), performing as both oboist and pianist from her living room. As a result, IDRS commissioned her to compose a new work for English horn and piano which was premiered at their 2021 Virtual Symposium and programmed for the live 2022 convention.