The Concerto in A minor for Oboe and Strings was written by Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1943–44 for the oboist Léon Goossens, to whom the score is dedicated.
Vaughan Williams began work on the Oboe Concerto in 1943, immediately after completing the Fifth Symphony, with which it shares a great deal.
Amongst other things, the concerto began as a revision of a scherzo movement originally intended for the symphony.
[2][3] This pastoral piece is divided into three movements: The concerto has an element of cyclic form.
Each movement begins and ends with the same pentatonic theme, spanning an octave.