Unlike the famous Adagio, there is no question mark hanging over the authorship of one of Albinoni’s best-known works for oboe. During his lifetime, the self-styled Venetian dilettante became famous ...
Adelaide-based oboist Celia Craig premiered a new concerto by Master of the Queen’s Music, Judith Weir CBE, on 12 October with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra conducted by Douglas Boyd. The work is ...
Mozart's Oboe Concerto in C K314, performed on an instrument full of helium, because of course. Yesterday clarinettist Emil Jonason introduced something very, er, interesting: Mozart's Clarinet ...
Nigel Westlake has won the Paul Lowin Orchestral Prize of $25,000 for his Oboe Concerto Spirit of the Wild, composed for Diana Doherty and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. The prize jury said of ...
In 1945, a corporal in the U.S. army (and oboist) visited Richard Strauss at his home and asked him if he had ever considered writing an oboe concerto. The old man declined. Six months later - aged 81 ...
Oboists may feel ruefully that musical history owes them a showpiece. They have one now: James MacMillan’s Oboe Concerto turns the soloist into a nimble-footed musical athlete, a star opera singer, a ...
They say the cello can pull at the heartstrings because it's the instrument closest to the human voice, but you should hear what Heinz Holliger can do with an oboe. On his new album (released today on ...
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