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 ...

Concerto for Oboe and Strings Portland Baroque Orchestra Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Gonzalo Ruiz, Oboe Concerto for Oboe and Strings Portland Baroque Orchestra Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer ...

Movie soundtrack composer John Williams' 81st birthday will be marked by his own Boston Pops Orchestra releasing a live recording of his oboe concerto on February 8th. To celebrate the composer's 81st ...

Tomorrow is the regular concert of the Fuji Flower Symphony Orchestra. Schubert's "Great," Strauss's Oboe Concerto, and ...

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 remarkable true story of how a US military man inspired Richard Strauss to compose an oboe concerto after World War II. On 30 April 1945 – the very day that Hitler committed suicide in a bunker ...

Ave verum corpus Albrecht Mayer, Cor anglais Vital Julian Frey, Organ Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Bremen Concerto for Flute, Harp and Orchestra Albrecht Mayer, Oboe Vital Julian Frey, Harpsichord ...

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 ...

Heinz Holliger is to the oboe what James Galway and Jean Pierre Rampal are to the flute, or Dennis Brain to the horn: the standard by which all else is compared. He is also an accomplished composer ...

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 ...