Heinz Holliger is now 72, and rumour has it that this could be his last disc as an oboist. There's certainly a sense of coming full circle about it, too, since the main works here – the Concertos for ...

Musicologists puzzled over a lost Ludwig van Beethoven concerto for decades, ever since the 1960s discovery of the sketch of a single movement among the composer's papers. Now, two Dutch Beethoven ...

Gonzalo X. Ruiz — well known to Bay Area audiences through his long-standing involvement with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra — is among the country’s great Baroque oboists, and this lovely and ...

The oboe is the hardest instrument to play, so what drew the young virtuoso Alexei Ogrintchouk to it? "My parents took me to a lot of concerts in Moscow when I was young, and I was always fascinated ...

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, the self-styled Venetian dilettante became famous ...

Oboists may feel ruefully that musical history owes them a showpiece. They have one now: James MacMillan’s Oboe Concerto turns the soloist into a nimble-footed musical athlete, a star opera singer, a ...

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 No.

Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra Giancarlo Guerrero, Conductor Jennifer Higdon, Composer Nashville Symphony Orchestra James Button, Oboe Concerto for Viola and Orchestra Nashville Symphony Orchestra ...

It's a stretch, but there are actually a few ways to link Bill Aikens, principal oboist with the Grand Junction Symphony Orchestra, with John de Lancie. De Lancie, also an oboist, was the U.S. Army ...

The title really ought to come in quotation marks, for of the five works that Alexei Ogrintchouk plays on his first solo recording for BIS, only one, the Adagio from the Sinfonia of the Easter ...