Alessandro Baccini - Complete Oboe Concertos - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Oboe Concerti - Oboe Concerti [COMPACT DISCS] date 08/10/2004

If you ask oboists about the golden age of their instrument, they will in all likelihood refer to the first half of the 18th century. It was the time when a plethora of music for the oboe was written - solo and trio sonatas, concertos, cantatas... No court orchestra could make do without the instrument. Many of these pieces were created by the three most feted late-Baroque composers Antonio Vivaldi (he conceived about two dozen concertos for solo oboe!), J. S. Bach, and his friend G. P. Telemann, who is deemed one of the most prolific composers of all time. Although dating from the same period, the works by the three creators represent three very different worlds. Yet that which they have in common is their virtuosity and the associated high technical demands placed upon the soloist. Besides Ensemble 18+ and his musical soul-mate, the harpsichordist Barbara Maria Willi, Vilém Veverka invited along as a guest to participate in this dream project his teacher and colleague Dominik Wollenweber, oboist of the Berliner Philharmoniker. With this new album, Veverka has confirmed his firm position among the most acclaimed oboists on the international scale. InchVilém Veverka breathes new life into concertos by three Baroque masters.Inch

Velvert Turner is largely known for being a protégé and student of Jimi Hendrix, who he met as a teenager in New York in the late '60s. The influence is immediately clear, with respect to both Turner's guitar work and vocals. Some have even mistaken his only album for a InchlostInch Hendrix recording. Velvert Turner Group's self-titled 1972 , which aptly closes with a tribute to Hendrix (a cover of InchFreedomInch), is now back on vinyl, remastered by Dave Gardner. This reissue features an alternate mix of the first song, InchMadonna (of the Seven Moons)Inch, as a bonus track.