Clive Strutt

These Three bagatelles for Oboe d'Amore (or Oboe) and piano were written for Derek Bell to take on his 1976 summer tour. The world premiere was given at Musgrove Plantation, Georgia, by him with Jack Houton at the piano.

In 1980, the Irish recording company Cleddagh issued a disc of Bell multi-tracking on his various instruments, and including these bagatelles for which he thus accompanied himself.

The recording's sleeve note described the first bagatelle as a long melody for the oboe d'amore backed by a thematically discreet, disciplined piano part; the second as enjoying a mild impressionistic flirtation with present-day avant-garde music, while the third bagatelle is a march with three main tunes, the second of which has an Edwardian flavour thought to conjure up Elgar and Walford Davies.

Clive Strutt
1999

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