Geesh, that Rossini … I can’t think that fast!
And hey … oboe players are … neurotic?!?! Gasp!
“You will never have an ideal reed.” … pay attention to the part that begins there. It’s so true!
Check out this page. Lots of photos of oboes, and if you click on the links below that you’ll see even more. It’s very cool!
… but I have to confess seeing the video cracks me up. No way would we sound that way playing outside. I’m glad they do show them in the studio as well. Otherwise my eyes and ears don’t get along very well, if you know what I mean!
Here’s the blurb below from Decca Classics:
The repertoire of the new album revels in the Romantic tradition of the instrument with Schuman’s popular Three Romances and works by contemporaries of Brahms and Liszt composed for Mayer’s instrument: Heinrich Herzogenberg’s Trio for Oboe, Horn, and Piano and August Klughardt’s five fantasy pieces Schilflieder (Song of the Reeds) for oboe, viola, and piano
Albrecht Mayer is joined by outstanding viola player Tabea Zimmermann, horn player Marie-Luise Neunecker, and by Markus Becker at the piano, “unbeatable as a virtuoso, a musical soul painter with great understanding” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)
The album title is taken from the title of the work by Klughardt and acknowledges the longing of Romantic music, the acclaimed vocal tone of Albrecht Mayer’s playing, and the reed which gives his instrument its unique voice
My students can tell you they hear that from me a lot. I know that some of my colleagues might not agree, but I say the less movement the better, especially when playing something fast.
Watch this man’s fingers … this is what I’m talkin’ about!
How long am I looking at to stop sounding like a tattoo gun being waved around, and start sounding like a musical instrument? Any tips how to make a vaguely respectable sound?
(Yes, the person is talking about oboe!)
Away In The Manger
Karen Birch Blundell and Adam De Sorgo, oboes
I have seen this young oboist on YouTube before, but just ran across this video of him playing the Goosens concerto. Bravo, McKenzie Allen!
(How is it that British music is so obviously British? I confess to not being familiar with this work at all — I know, I know, I’m really lame sometimes — and yet before seeing the composer’s name I knew it was a British composer.)
… and what is it about composers and their crazy lives?
I mean … c’mon now. We are as normal as can be!
We Three Kings
Karen Birch Blundell and Adam De Sorgo, oboes
EVERYONE needs a FLY Oboe Biker Boot. Right?
(I don’t see any mention who is playing piano.)
Marcello Oboe Concerto, Adagio
Eugene Izotov, oboe
“A Celebration of the Life of Ralph Gomberg”
February 4, 2007
Brown Hall, New England Conservatory
Enjoy! (And thanks to Bob Hubbard for this one!)
Yes … plural.
Very fun. (It appears La Api is easier to do this with than Mozart!)
Catchy work, too.
A suite for oboe and organ based on Filipino folk tunes, written by Alejandro Consolacion for the International Bamboo Organ Festival in 2009.
Performed by Franz Miguel Ramirez, oboe and
Alejandro Consolacion, piano on Aug. 13, 2011 at
The Philamlife Auditorium. U.N. Ave., Manila
Mostly I’m fascinated that there’s an “International Bamboo Organ Festival”!
Oops! I forgot to post the rest of the oboe photos yesterday when I said I would. So here they are now. Thanks, Lee!
