Saudade

Hello all! This is officially my 4th oboe solo, and guess what? It’s only 1 movement, and surprisingly my longest one as well, clocking in at just over 6 minutes. And date I say it’s one of my best :p.
Anyways, the name took awhile to figure out, and in typical imperialist fashion, I composed a classical piece and named it after a foreign word lmao. Jk, but after a lot of listening I found it. Saudade, which is Portuguese, and is a word that represents a kind of bittersweet. I felt the piece kind of had a repressed happiness feeling to it so I thought this name was great.
And funnily enough, I originally started this piece almost a month ago, and eventually deleted it because I thought it wasn’t good enough. I cam back to it later and went, “wow, this piece is good, why did I delete it?” This is also breaking my streak of being unable to compose stuff I like, so I hope you like it!
Enjoy!