Petite complainte

Petite complainte
(Small lament) for oboe (or flute) and piano (for prima vista reading) from Das Märchen vom Aschenbrödel (Cinderella)

Year of composition

1941

Duration

3'30''

Scored for

oboe and piano; also available in a version for flute and piano (arr. Rien de Reede)

Publication information

Hug Musikverlage: oboe and piano (GH 11129); flute and piano (GH 11822);

Article on this website about the version for flute and piano.

Premiere

First performance: Geneva, September 1941. Concours national d’exécution musicale

Recordings (selective list)

  • Recording of the version for flute and piano (arr. Rien de Reede, 2024)
    performed by Thies Roorda, flute and Alessandro Soccorsi, piano (April 2024)

  • Heinz Holliger, oboe
    John Constable, piano
    Philips 434 105-2 ℗ 1993 (FMS065)

  • ‘Frank Martin and the saxophone’
    (version for soprano saxophone and piano, arr. by Arno Bornkamp, 2009)
    Arno Bornkamp, soprano saxophone
    Leo van Doeselaar, piano
    OTR C12095 ℗ 2012 (FMS003)

  • ‘Pearls’
    Steven Sneyers, oboe
    Evgenia Galyan, piano
    Steven Sneyers et Evgenia Galyan ℗ + © 2015

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