Author: jamesoboe
Date: 2008-06-22 12:45
Hi mschmidt
many thanks for your contribution to this thread. I've saved the Vogel essay to my favourites and shall read it in a quieter moment. I ordered the 'Sound in Motion' book for completist purposes, and hope to glean one or two nuggets of useful information by and by.
Hello too, to Alphons. I shall try and track down any recordings I can find of the list of names you left on your thread of Dutch oboists. Very often, ones radar is obscured by the German and French schools of oboe playing, that one fails to see all the great playing coming out of lots of other countries. I must admit that I am not overly familiar with what's happening oboe-wise in Holland. I have only heard of Werner Herbers, but am not knowingly familiar with his playing. Hopefully, I can remedy this, shortly. There are very strong schools emerging now in both Italy and Spain, which may not immediately be on people's radars.
I can fully understand your admiration of Albrecht Mayer's playing. On balance, he is probably the one to watch at the moment. I just love his Bach arrangements cd, but I feel the Mozart and Handel arrangements cds are less convincing, though still great.
You might want to consider buying Alex Klein's Fantasies and Partitas cd, which is a pretty phenomenal example of superlative, american-school oboe playing. You'll almost certaily be blown away by his technique. It's very different to Francois Leleux's Fantasias cd, but they stand more or less equal in their achievements.
Regarding the Netherlands Wind Ensemble - they are, and their recordings are, legendary!
James
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