Author: jamesoboe
Date: 2004-08-04 17:06
Dear Ken
thanks for taking the trouble to find all those web-addresses for Omar Zoboli. He is a great player. The Wolf-Ferrari recordings don't represent his very best playing, but I really love the CD of oboe and organ compositions he's recorded, and feel very tempted to buy it. It's great to see a recording of the wonderful Krebs' Fantasy for oboe and organ in F minor. That combination is always a winner for me, in the same way that cor anglais and harp seems to work very well, also. Omar has made a ground breaking recording of all the Pasculli compositions. I met him years ago, during a masterclass, at the RAM, London. He informed me that the Pasculli family had bequeathed him Pasculli's actual instruments, but I can't remember if he attempted to record with them. He's meant to be a very fine cook if you ever get the chance to dine with him
I don't think his Pasculli recordings are available anymore, but the next best thing is a Pasculli CD by Yeon-Hee Kwak entitled Ricordi Di Napoli. You can listen to 60 second bursts at Amazon.com. In particular, look out for Le Api (The Bee), it's 5 minutes of non-stop broken arpeggios requiring the player to circular-breathe for almost the whole duration of the piece. It brings new meaning to the idea of a tired embouchure! Probably Pasculli's finest composition is his Omaggio a Bellini for cor anglais and harp. There's a very good performance of it on Holliger's Holliger at the Opera CD. But, as yet, I have never heard such an incredible technical display, featuring Pasculli's works, than the two featured on Thomas Indermuhle's Intermezzo Cd, with I Salonisti. The ending of I Vespri Siciliani is played at such a speed that there are few amongst us, out there, who can approach it.
Or does anyone know differently?!?
Regards
James
Post Edited (2004-08-04 18:51)
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