Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976): Six Metamorphoses after Ovid per oboe solo op. 49 (1951). Heinz Holliger.
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Pan, who played upon the reed pipe which was Syrinx, his beloved
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Phaeton, who rode upon the chariot of the sun for one day and was hurled into the river Padus by a thunderbolt [2:10]
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Niobe, who, lamenting the death of her fourteen children, was turned into a mountain [3:30]
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Bacchus, at whose feasts is heard the noise of gaggling women’s tattling tongues and shouting out of boys [6:11]
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Narcissus, who fell in love with his own image and became a flower [8:05]
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Arethusa, who, flying from the love of Alpheus the river god, was turned into a fountain [12:07]
