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La cetra, Oboe Concerto No. 3 in B Minor, S. D937 : Marcello: La cetra, Oboe Concerto No. 3 in B Minor, S. D937: II. Adagio by Camerata Bern album cover

La cetra, Oboe Concerto No. 3 in B Minor, S. D937 : Marcello: La cetra, Oboe Concerto No. 3 in B Minor, S. D937: II. Adagio

by Camerata Bern

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About "La cetra, Oboe Concerto No. 3 in B Minor, S. D937 : Marcello: La cetra, Oboe Concerto No. 3 in B Minor, S. D937: II. Adagio" by Camerata Bern

Marcello's adagio in B Minor is a study in suspended sorrow. Camerata Bern draws out long, aching lines, the oboe's tone dark and rounded as a river stone. The tension lies in the music's refusal to breakβ€”grief held in perfect, formal stillness, all the more powerful for its restraint.