Author: gabriel'soboe
Date: 2005-11-27 09:35
Thanks for your comment Howard. I indeed find this virtuoso work exciting too, especially its slow movement (but I usually always favour slow movements !). I found it to be more listenable than say Aaron Jay Kernis' COLORED FIELD (Concerto for English Horn and orchestra), though I like tremendously the 1st movement of this one.
Broadly speaking, I usually do not taste atonal or radically experimental stuff for oboe such as Isang Yun's works. It just doesn't fit to the oboe for my liking. I have such a CD gathering trio pieces by Georg Katzer, Edison Denisov and Yun but it's a painful experience for my ears. I also own a CD by Thomas Stacy pairing three English horn concertos by Ned Rorem, Vincent Persichetti and Sydney Hodkinson (his piece is for electrified English horn !). Needless to say I don't put it on often.
Regarding music from the first part of the XVIIIth century, I bought yesterday an hybrid SACD encompassing 5 concertos by Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688-1758) released this year on the Capriccio label. They are not oboe concertos strictly speaking but rather concertos grosso, most of them featuring one or two oboes associated to other instruments (trumpet, bassoon, flute, corni da caccia).
Laurent
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