“Four Romances” for Oboe and Piano are melodious, late romantic style pieces with conventional form and idiomatic writing. The movements are: Berceuse, Siciliano, Intermezzo, and Caprice.
This piece explores the various sounds and relationships between 3 disparate instruments utilizing alternative playing techniques such as singing while playing on the horn, clicking the tongue on the flute, and striking the double bass to create a percussive sound.
This trio is a tongue-in-cheek paraphrase of Richard Wagner’s famous and influential Prelude to the 1859 opera Tristan and Isolde using jazz harmonies.
This 3 movement piece fuses the standard brass quintet (2 Bb trumpets, horn, trombone, bass trombone/tuba) with jazz trio (guitar or piano, bass, drums).
Harold Meek, former Associate Principal Horn of the Boston Symphony, has edited performance versions of two romantic works for soprano, horn and piano.