So many baroque works I can think of which employ the oboe, but this aria of Handel's is pretty much at the top of my list. I know it's cheating, but it will brighten up your day!
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Albinoni’s are very good. Also Richard Strauss’s and RVW!Don’t cry for me
I go where music was born
J S Bach 1685-1750Comment
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A beautiful work in which the Oboe is prominent is Jean Francaix:L'horloge de flore.Comment
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Easy - Richard Strauss
PS Just mentioned the excellent new 10CD Szigeti historical box on "Bargains" thread. Surprised to hear the unexpected oboe tone from the 1928 Hallé soloist in the Adagio of the Brahms Concerto. (Can be heard on YouTube at 20.50 mins). Still not quite sure but I don't dislike it. It led me to do some Googling and I found two totally diverse reviews:
A "The crucial oboe solo in the slow movement gives little pleasure: the sound of the instrument is crude and harsh compared to modern playing, and even the player’s way with phrasing seems laboured and unrefined." (MusicWeb)
B "Hallé's solo oboe is a blessed surprise in the slow movement, with none of the nasal vibrato that Leon Goossens practiced and passed on, like a virus, to Brit oboists ever after." (classicalcdreview)Comment
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I thought of Martinu, but actually the oboe concerto isn't one of his better works IMO. As for Albinoni, surely his oboe concertos are rather bland, unadventurous and formulaic in comparison with Vivaldi?Comment
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It's a bit "close" in the mix, isn't it - more prominent than the violin solo when it enters! I quite like it - and the phrasing is fascinating.Originally posted by gurnemanz View Post[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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I don't think I've seen mention of RVW's Ten Blake songs (tenor and oboe).
And I see I have a Martinu Oboe quartet on a Naxos Chamber music CD.
That's this afternoon's listening (together with Choral evensong for the introit and canticles) sorted!Comment
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Ruth Gipps
Song for Orchestra op 22 (1948) possibly doesn’t strictly count as an oboe work ... but there’s a fair bit in there and she understood the instrument ....Comment
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Seconded. After that I think the Strauss concerto, and then probaby the Poulenc sonata.Originally posted by cloughie View PostComment
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PS: Bellini's only concerto is for oboe. I've heard it's good, but I don't recall it myself - must check it out again. I think the Albinoni concertos are good.Comment
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Currently listening to this CD. Robert Tear is the tenor, but on the sublime Ten Blake Songs, it does not identify the oboe player.
I've studied the CD booklet from the first to last page, to no avail. Does anyone know who the oboeist is on this CD?
Btw, marvellous performances and demonstration class analogue recording.
Edit: I just noticed that one song on the CD (Eternity), when transferred to my iTunes library, says "with Neil Black - oboe". I guess he must be playing on all of the Ten Blake Songs.Comment
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A couple of Neil Black's Obituaries refer to him having recorded the Blake songs with Robert Tear in 1972.
... and I think Tear only ever recorded them the once. "Inconsiderate" of DECCA to omit the details, though.[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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Thanks ferney, I think this pretty much confirms Neil Black as the oboist on this recording. It is a great shame that Decca London didn't get his name on this release.Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View PostA couple of Neil Black's Obituaries refer to him having recorded the Blake songs with Robert Tear in 1972.
... and I think Tear only ever recorded them the once. "Inconsiderate" of DECCA to omit the details, though.Comment
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Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View PostA couple of Neil Black's Obituaries refer to him having recorded the Blake songs with Robert Tear in 1972.
... and I think Tear only ever recorded them the once. "Inconsiderate" of DECCA to omit the details, though.It's not quite that bad!Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
The track listing (page 4 in the CD booklet) does credit Neil Black (admittedly in brackets, and after track 21, Eternity, the last of the songs, which could be where iTunes picked it up from). But the other artists (Tear, Ledger, Luxon, Willison) certainly get bigger and bolder treatment, so Decca has indeed been a bit remiss.Comment
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I depends upon how you define an oboe work. As an oboist, my favourites included obligato movements, such as those in Bach's St Matthew Passion and Christmas Oratorio. One I've played many times in concert in recent years is "The Lord is my Shepherd" from Rutter's Requiem.
(But if you were thinking this might be a commercial to tempt you to ask me to play - don't ask. I sold my fabulous Rigoutat Expression oboe a couple of years ago, as it wasn't getting many outings. My spare one just ain't the same. Do I regret selling it? Sometimes, yes. But I'm concentrating on piano accompaniment now. Plenty to do!
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