Performing on the oboe was Alexei Ogrintchouk, a Russian-born soloist with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra who, at 24, is roughly the same age as Beethoven when he scored the concerto.

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 ...

Oboe player Thomas Hutchinson was captivating. The opportunity to hear Richard Strauss' gorgeous Oboe Concerto is not to be passed over lightly and, with Thomas Hutchinson as soloist, it was an ...

Tomaso Albinoni: Oboe Concerto in Dminor Opus 9 No.2 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 ...

Later in the hour, we hear a concerto for clarinet by Franz Krommer (1759-1831). It wasn't the only woodwind concerto he wrote. We hear Alex Klein play the closing movement from his Oboe Concerto ...

Ella Xu, Grand Prize Winner of the Philadelphia International Music Festival Spring 2023 Virtual Concerto Competition, captivated audiences with her performance of Alessandro Marcello’s Oboe ...

There's another concerto on this CD-a double concerto for oboe and bassoon. The recording lists the work as HWV "deest,"meaning the piece is not actually in the Handel catalogue of works.

MacMillan conducts the Britten Sinfonia himself, also partnering Daniel in Vaughan Williams’s Oboe Concerto and adding Britten’s Suite on English Folk Tunes, Op. 90, for good measure.

Tonight at London's Barbican he will premiere a new oboe concerto written for him by the French composer Marc-André Dalbavie with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. "It's a very testing piece, a great ...