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 ...

The Mozart Oboe Concerto begins normally enough. The orchestra introduces two themes, one jaunty, one questioning. But then something odd happens. “The oboist enters with this crazy scale up to a high ...

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 ...

Concerto for Oboe and Strings Alexei Ogrintchouk, Oboe Swedish Chamber Orchestra Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Concerto for Oboe and Strings Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Swedish Chamber Orchestra ...

Vaughan Williams’s 1944 Concerto for oboe and strings is one of few such works to maintain a foothold in the repertoire. David Threasher listens to a selection of the available recordings The oboe ...

The London Symphony Orchestra’s Olivier Stankiewicz was the soloist for the premiere of Colin Matthews’s oboe concerto; Rachmaninov and Bartók followed, with Chan compelling and clear It’s hard to ...

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 ...

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 ...