BrittenSix Metamorphoses after Ovid, Op. 49 For Ooboe

Content – Pan (who played upon the reed pipe which was Syrinx, his beloved) – Phaeton (who rode upon the chariot of the sun for one day and was hurled into the river Padus by a thunderbolt) – Niobe (who, lamenting the death of her fourteen children, was turned into a mountain) – Bacchus (at whose feasts is heard the noise of gaggling women s tattling tongues and shouting out of boys) – Narcissus (who fell in love with his own image and became a flower) – Arethusa (who, flying from the love of Alpheus the river got, was turned into a fountain) 23 X 30 Cm.