Author: gabriel'soboe
Date: 2005-11-27 17:25
Where do I get such rare modern works from ? Well, I live near Paris and use to visit various record shops there. Sometimes, I have to order a specific CD through the web. This was for instance the case with a CD published back in 1991 by Koch Schwann which is deleted over here: Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's IDILLIO Concertino for oboe, op. 15 and his Concertino for English horn, op. 34, performed by Omar Zoboli. I must confess both pieces rather disappointed me. Their listening is by far not unpleasant a all but I didn't find the melodies striking enough.
Besides, the Naxos catalogue is well distributed over here. I for instance bought lately a CD by Samuel Barber which introduced me to his harrowing CANZONETTA for oboe and strings (1981) and to his CAPRICORN CONCERTO for trumpet, flute, oboe and orchestra. Nice discoveries, especially the CANZONETTA. I there learnt the CANZONETTA was supposed to be part of a whole oboe concerto. Regarding this matter, here's an excerpt from the liner notes written by Daniel Felsenfeld: "Originally Barber envisioned a multi-movement work, but as he knew he would not live to finish it, he settled on a single movement, a Canzonetta - and he did not quite live even to finish this; Charles Turner, Barber's only student, took up the task of completing it."
Apropos of Hindemith, did you ever pay a listen to his TRIO for Viola, heckelphone and piano, op. 47 ? I found a German recording available on the MDG label. The performers are the Ensemble Villa Musica. Since pieces featuring a solo heckelphone such as this one aren't numerous, this one is well worth a listen !
Among my favourite oboe pieces, there is Carl Nielsen's TWO FANTASY PIECES, op. 2, for oboe and piano. The opening movement "Romanze" is to die for, to paraphrase words I read in this thread ! I discovered lately there exists a version of that piece for oboe and strings. It's available on a Capriccio CD by Lajos Lencsès called "Oboenkonzerte". On that CD you also have rare works by Hugo Schunke, Kalliwoda and Ropartz. The arrangement of the Nielsen piece was provided courtesy of T. Sulyok. The same performers, that is Lajos Lencsès, also recorded another CD simply entitled "Oboenkonzerte" for Capriccio with a different program: oboe concertos by Schwencke, Weber, Rimsky-Korsakov and D'Indy.
Another piece for oboe I'm hooked on is César Franck's Piece N°5 for oboe and piano. Slow and moving. It is available on various anthologies.
Since most of you are American, I also would like to add I like very much Aaron Copland's QUIET CITY for trumpet, English horn and strings but I guess that piece must be hugely popular among North-American oboe players and aficionados.
Well, that's it for the time being.
Laurent
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