Oboe Concerto

The small concerto for solo oboe and chamber orchestra was commissioned by The Royal Library of Copenhagen for the inauguration of a concert hall located at the new library annex, the so-called Black Diamond, September 1999. The work as such focuses more on the contemplative and sonorously introvert, rather than the virtuosic. It is in four movements, what could be called four little tone-poems on (and inspired by) the name of the four moon craters known as Lake of Dream, Ocean of Storms, Sea of tranquility and Lake of Death. Four enigmatic and deeply fascinating ancient conceptions of the landscape on this our closest, but at the same time most legendary and myth-shrouded celestial body.