condition (record/cover): NM / EX 

Lukas Foss's Concerto For Oboe And Orchestra and Halsey Stevens's Concerto For Clarinet And String Orchestra, documented on Crystal Records - the Los Angeles label that focused specifically on wind and woodwind chamber and solo repertoire, filling a gap in the American recording industry that the major labels showed no interest in addressing. Stevens, the biographer of Bartók and a composer whose neo-romantic language placed him firmly within the American mainstream, contributed here a work of considerable craft. Foss's oboe concerto shows another dimension of a composer whose range across the 1960s was remarkable. A document of the serious end of American wind music.