Thea Musgrave - Niobe

Recorded in October 2021 at the Wooburn Festival (www.wooburn.com), Niobe is a work for solo oboe and tape. The solo oboe takes the part of Niobe bitterly lamenting her murdered children. The tape, with the distant high voices and the slow tolling bells (and later gong), is intended to provide an evocative and descriptive accompaniment.