Author: gabriel'soboe
Date: 2005-11-27 07:45
As for possible suggestions, how about the Naxos catalogue ? I purchased recently their release of Kenneth Fuchs' EVENTIDE (Concerto for English Horn) as performed by Thomas Stacy and the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by JoAnn Falletta. I was pleased by that piece. The same label has just issued a Concerto for oboe and clarinet by Marion Bauer. The CD also includes another piece featuring oboe (chamber music, that is).
Naxos, besides proposing very reasonable prices (I even should low-budget items), are proposing a large amount of unpublished oboe works. Think for instance of their CD dedicated to Leopold Hofmann's oboe concertos (8.553979, issued in 2002).
Living in Europe, I don't know if the label Hungaroton Classic is distributed in the US but I highly recommend two of their CD's:
- Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf's complete oboe concertos (HCD 32062, issued 2002), with Lajos Lencsès and the Liszt Ferenc Chamber Orchestra conducted by Janos Rolla. By the way, one of my favourite oboe pieces ever is Dittersdorf's "Andantino" but it ain't featured on this CD since it stems from a symphony. It's available on another Lencsès recording as a complement to Concertos by Foerster, Stulick and Graupner, on the Capriccio label.
and a rather obscure oddity to say the least:
- Georg Druschetzky's Concerto for oboe, 8 timpani and orchestra, available on a CD entitled WORKS FOR TIMPANI AND ORCHESTRA. There as well, Lajos Lencsès is the soloist.
This concerto written around 1800 is a pure gem and it's fun to have the sound of the timpani in the foreground. It's the only concerto ever written
for those solo instruments of course.
I have numerous oboe and English horn recordings and Lencsès happens to be the performer the most represented in my CD's. Some CD's of his I've acquired of late include Antonio Rosetti's 3 oboe concertos and Franz Xaver Richter's oboe concerto in F Major (paired with two flute concertos by Richter), both on cpo, with a backing from the Slovak Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Bohdan Warchal . As a whole, how do you rate this Hungarian oboe player ?
Enjoy
Laurent
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