Author: gabriel'soboe
Date: 2005-11-28 18:52
Thanks for your reply, Howard. Well, since you live in Malaysia, I assume the easiest way for you to get such recordings is through internet. Perhaps you should order five or six CD's at once to pay off the shipping costs as much as possible ?
Finding rare items is also a matter of perseverance and fortune. I'll give you an example. A few years ago, I was ferreting in one Parisian second-hand shop and casually found a Czech CD of Carlo Besozzi containing 3 oboe concertos (Supraphon label with Jan Adamus, soloist). At that time, I did not even know the name of this fairly obscure composer from the XVIIIth century. This was a sheer stroke of luck.
I noticed most oboe recordings are rather short-lived, so you must "swoop down" on them before they simply vanish from the market.
Items you will find without trouble are e.g. Lebrun's 6 concertos, Krommer's 2 concertos. There are also concertos by composers such as C.P.E Bach, Zach, Graun, Ferlendis, Fiala, etc that show up on various CD's. A recent Naxos CD dedicated to Donizetti also offers both his oboe concerto and his English horn concerto.
As for the XIXth century, concertos by Molique, Hummel, Rietz, Moscheles and various compositions by Pasculli are relatively easy to get.
Another composer who came up with outstanding music for oboe, oboe d'amore and English horn I didn't mention yet is Charles Koechlin (1867-1950). There exists for instance a whole CD by Lajos Lencsès dedicated to chamber music by Koechlin on the German Audite Schallplatten which I willingly recommend to you. I also have a bassoon anthology by this composer. His music is very subtle, typically French-sounding, definitely worth the discovery.
From the legendary Leon Goossens, I have only one anthology of chamber music issued on the Chandos label. It features pieces by Bach, Elgar and various other composers, most of them altogether unknown. Some beautiful in-depth elegies are included on this recording.
Cheers
Laurent
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