Oboe Concerti - Oboe Concerti - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This 7-album set presents the complete recordings made by Paul Dombrecht on the Accent tag. Few Flemish woodwind players are as renowned as Dombrecht, whose name is well-known to all budding oboists. The recordings were made between 1978 and 1988 and include music by Telemann, Zelenka, and other baroque composers as well as music for oboe from the romantic period. Dombrecht teams up with Wieland Kuijken, Robert Kohnen, Jos van Immerseel, and other fine early music specialists. Paul Dombrecht performs the oboe on period instruments as well as the modern oboe. He is a much sought-after soloist all over Europe, who plays frequently with other prominent musicians and Baroque orchestras. Along with his profound knowledge of early music, he is also a virtuoso on the modern oboe, performing the complete repertoire for the instrument, including the 19th and 20th centuries. In addition to being an oboist, Paul Dombrecht is active as conductor and artistic director of the Baroque orchestra (and choir) Il Fondamento, which he formed in 1989, the wind ensemble Octophoros and the Paul Dombrecht Consort. As a musical director of these ensembles he advocates as intuitive and honest musical approach. As a conductor, he performs works ranging from chamber music to large-scale productions and opera.

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

Alessandro Baccini - Complete Oboe Concertos [COMPACT DISCS] date 05/31/2005