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Favorite Oboe Music

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#1 ·
I love the sound of the oboe, but am unfamiliar with much of the repertoire for this beautiful instrument. What are your favorite oboe pieces? Please list as few or as many as you like.

Tim

P.S. I had a friend, now deceased, from Albania, who also loved the oboe, which she charmingly pronounced 'Oh Boy'
 
#33 ·
The baroque was a good time for the oboe and bassoon. I am fascinated by comparing concertos by Vivaldi and Albinoni. Telemann was a wizard with excellent parts the instrument as well. That trio in the first Brandenburg evokes some kind of duckwalk in my imagination. Not unrelated, the English Horn makes a fine swan in Sibelius' Tuonela.

Finding a good oboist and hearing their recordings is a good way to go. Many like Holliger on modern oboe, while Bernardini and Pierlot are big names with period instruments. And below is a new Zelenka that I like after hearing most of the others. Those Czechs are famous for their oboe sound. And I haven't mentioned French oboe at all yet - Couperin, Boismotier, Francouer, Ramaeu...

I also like the RVW but can't forget that it was the Strauss that killed the SFS oboist...

 
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