Author: HautboisJJ
Date: 2008-06-23 03:58
Listen to Han de Vries! On EMI is a reissue of his baroque recordings. The Netherlands Wind Ensemble had a greatest hits album which i think was a good enough representation of their expert quality, although, search for the Mozart and Rossini (in the greatest hits album) opera transcriptions, jaw dropping precision!
Interestingly, when i read your sentence stating:" 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 recounted what Hansjorg Schellenberger said to me recently on the current situation of oboe playing throughout the world:" There are no longer schools of playing, there is only WHO plays the oboe like this but no longer what COUNTRY plays the oboe like this, only in the states is such an ideology and persistence for one similar type of playing existing." One will never be able to get an oboe orchestral job in the States if one doesn't play the American style, i love the many oboists that play in such a way, but no offense, why is it in such a country where ideas keep booming and innovation drives the nation that there is reluctance to accept other ways to present the oboe? Just curious.....
Howard
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