Ennio Morricone Gabriels Oboe

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I love great film music, and I love the oboe: it has an almost human vocal quality which communicates. • Here, Maestro Signor Ennio Morricone composed this piece for the film The Mission , and it has long been a favourite of mine. It moved me very much when I heard it the first time, and it still does. In my opinion, Ennio Morricone is a composer of the highest order, and he unfailingly strikes a profound emotional chord in complete sympathy with his subject. His work for the film Cinema Paradiso is equally convincing. • For those who haven't heard this piece before, I hope you find much enjoyment in it too. • I took these pictures this year of various places the Peak District National Park, in both the Derbyshire and Staffordshire parts, and also of Lichfield Cathedral. The elegant steeple, with comely lucarnes, in the earlier slides is that of Butterton's parish church just west of the Manifold Valley - a church historically unremarkable, but its setting among the rolling hills and pasture in the landscape of the Staffordshire Moorlands is one of much beauty. • Thor's Cave can be seen at bottom left in the opening slide: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor's_Cave . I also included a slide of the lovely ford at Butterton at 1:29, limestone cobbles beneath its clear, sparkling water. • Lichfield Cathedral, in its Early English Gothic style (the nave much-restored in the Victorian era to make good extensive damage suffered during the English Civil War) features in the later slides. I included a picture of an item currently on display in the chapter house from the C7 Anglo-Saxon Staffordshire Hoard (http://www.staffordshirehoard.org.uk/ ): a gold strip which carries the Latin inscription: Rise up O Lord, and may thy enemies be dispersed and those who hate thee be driven from thy face. It has two sources, the Book of Numbers or Psalm 67, taken from the Vulgate, the Bible used by the Saxons. • Closing shots are of Peak District field barn interiors, my hens, and the Constellation of Cassiopeia, which I took from my garden. • Conductor: David Bedford • London Philharmonic Orchestra • Oboe: Joan Whiting • Chorus: Barnet Schools Choir • A Virgin Label Recording

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