A Tribute To Janet

The Britten Oboe Quartet here makes its debut with a programme of its core repertory. It naturally includes the great Mozart Quartet K.370 and Britten's own Phantasy op.2, but also two pieces that have a special resonance for the distinguished oboist Nicholas Daniel, because they werecommissioned and premiered by Janet Craxton (1929-1981), his beloved teacher and inspiration, and her London Oboe Quartet. Thus Oliver Knussen's Cantata (1977) and the delightful Cor Anglais Quartet of Jean Francais add further variety to a fascinating anthology that also features Nicholas Daniel's own completion of Mozart's elegiac fragment K.580a.