Musicologists puzzled over a lost Ludwig van Beethoven concerto for decades, ever since the 1960s discovery of the sketch of a single movement among the composer's papers. Now, two Dutch Beethoven ...
Heinz Holliger is now 72, and rumour has it that this could be his last disc as an oboist. There's certainly a sense of coming full circle about it, too, since the main works here – the Concertos for ...
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 ...
It's a stretch, but there are actually a few ways to link Bill Aikens, principal oboist with the Grand Junction Symphony Orchestra, with John de Lancie. De Lancie, also an oboist, was the U.S. Army ...
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Later in the hour, we hear a concerto for clarinet by Franz Krommer (1759-1831). It wasn't the only woodwind concerto he wrote. We hear Alex Klein play the closing movement from his Oboe Concerto No.
While piano and violin concertos are a staple in the South Bay, concertgoers seldom have the opportunity to hear oboe concertos in live performances. But on Sunday night at the Norris Center for the ...
Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra Giancarlo Guerrero, Conductor Jennifer Higdon, Composer Nashville Symphony Orchestra James Button, Oboe Concerto for Viola and Orchestra Nashville Symphony Orchestra ...
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 ...
The title really ought to come in quotation marks, for of the five works that Alexei Ogrintchouk plays on his first solo recording for BIS, only one, the Adagio from the Sinfonia of the Easter ...