Author: vboboe
Date: 2005-07-31 01:22
... thanks, everybody, for the long cumulative list of oboe works on these threads, to look out for as personal listening study pieces ... hopefully with a variety of oboists both sides of the pond
re: pivotal, special pieces?
age 5 or thereabouts -- yes! Swan Lake definitely captured my youthful fancy and poor dad was driven to distraction at times to play it again and again ... on those old 78's! Little me just adored theme tune Act II. Definitely an important foundation piece for my love of oboe, but didn't know it was oboe, then. No idea who oboist would've been, London Philharmonic perhaps? in very early 50's? Goosens? Eugene or Leon? Or? Anybody out there have a clue?
age 15 plus - oboe teacher available, student needed, yours truly trying to decide between piano or flute or recorder or madrigal choir, remembered Swan Lake, realised that was oboe, so that's what decided oboe was The Instrument for me
long historical pause -- renewed acquaintance with playing oboe recently and currently there's one inspirational cd, especially tone-wise, Albinoni Adagio (and companion cd Albinoni Oboe Concerti) - Anthony Camden / Julia Girdwood - i'm very pleased with it
Reviewing personal music collection for oboe specific passages after reading these very informative posts (again thank you everybody) -- discover have some Holliger, Zanfini, Reichenberg, McKenna, Drake, but most oboists not identified, have to research orchestra musicians for recording years to perhaps identify ... no time, much too busy practising oboe, or listening for oboe in collection recordings, and Bboarding about oboe ...
Some discoveries from orchestral collections follow, which hopefully will add some other selections to somebody else's listening list -- there's a whole galaxy of oboe music out there
Tchaikovsky - of course, Swan Lake; and Capriccio Italien, Nutcracker
(don't have any of his symphonies in collection at present)
Grieg - Norwegian Dance, Morning, Hall of the Mountain King
Sibelius - Finlandia, Symphony #2, Swan of Tuonela (E-Horn)
Ibert - Escales : modere tres rhyhme
Khachaturian - Spartacus (various themes)
Beethoven - Symphony #3:2 Marche funebre, - Symph. #5, - Symph. #7, - Egmont Overture
Handel - Messiah Overture, and throughout - check out oboe scores in older editions, they must have been marathon athlete oboists in those olden days! - Water Music Suite F - and Fireworks!!!
Debussy - Nuages (E-horn)
Stravinsky - Pulcinellla
JS Bach - Concerto C minor for Ob and Vln (played by Holliger)
- Easter Oratorio - Adagio (ditto)
- Mass B minor - Alto Aria Et in spiritum sanctum
- Magnificat in D - Sop Aria - Quia respexit humilitatem; also Aria - Esurientes implevit bonis
- St Matthew Passion - Ten. Aria - Ich will bei meinem Jesu wachen
Marcello - Ob concerto C minor (only have the Adagio played so expressively by Zanfini)
Vivaldi - Ob Concerto A min, and Ob-Vln Concerto B-flat (largo and amazing allegro)
--- and of the course the afore-mentioned various Albinoni Concertos in Opus 7 (Adagios only) & several full 3-movement concertos in Opus 9 including the double concertos
AND, SWAN LAKE reprise ... quess what, last evening saw the ballet presentation by American Ballet at John F Kennedy performing arts centre aired on KCTS-TV, much enjoyed the spectacle, and of course delighted listening for the oboe specific passages ...
Credits included the violin soloist ... but of course, not the orchestra's oboist !!! who merely played a few important leading solo themes as part of an ordinary night's work ... !!!
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