Oboe Classics

17/01/2025

Continuing the review of the Oboe Classics catalogue, this CD is designed to suggest satisfying music for beginners to play. Here is student Uchenna Ngwe (now Dr Uchenna Ngwe) playing Dragonfly by Pam Wedgewood. https://open.spotify.com/track/3bzhfLYVJASDcmmCrM1cNd?si=ef4a6264b44c471f

13/12/2024

It may seem a small point, but this album is so much nicer to handle than the plastic ones. Would make a lovely present; there is still time, and postage is still free, worldwide. www.oboeclassics.com

11/12/2024

How many Oboe Classics customers are also composers? One such is Brian Elias, who bought Mark Baigent's recent CD, and has an album of wind music, including an Oboe Quintet with Nicholas Daniel. Check it out!

Brian Elias: Music For Wind. Signum: SIGCD796. Buy CD or download online. Adam Mackenzie, Chamber Domaine, Thomas Kemp, David Zucchi

05/12/2024

Of the pieces not by Vaughan Williams on Mark Baigent's lovely new disk, I am especially drawn to 'Songs from the Chinese' by Carey Blyton, who has his aunt Enid Blyton's gift for story-telling. https://open.spotify.com/track/45ADSWrgEmiYVUgpHPvyY2?si=8fabb840f2414127

17/11/2024

And - because it's rather buried inside the previous post - all shipping is now free, worldwide!

17/11/2024

Here's another photo from Mark Baigent's splendid (and splendid-looking) new CD - he's recording Rutland Boughton's 'Fairy-led' with James Gilchrist and Fiona Mitchell on clarinet. The piece is as delightful as their expressions, and as an added inducement, postage is now free, worldwide, for all CDs at www.oboeclassics.com

15/11/2024

This lovely album is now out at last, in a new plastic-free cover. It looks and sounds splendid. Listening again to check the CD pressing, I am struck how Mark Baigent and James Gilchrist make each work unique, and what a satisfying and moving collection this is. For me, the new presentation of the Vaughan Williams Blake Songs is very effective. Details at www.oboeclassics.com

11/11/2024

Here's a fascinating photo of Paul Taffanel's group, founded in 1879. They are probably playing the Gounod Petite Symphonie, written for them in 1895. The naming of the players is confusing - they seem to have confused clarinets with oboes (who knew?). That's Louis Bas and Louis Bleuzet on the right. Date? Bas was born in 1863, so probably early 20th Century. There's another photo of him athttps://www.oboeclassics.com/digital/Archive_France2_details.pdf Geoffrey Burgess

01/11/2024

Mark Baigent's new album is out for streaming/download today! Here are some links:
Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/3Qd0aNsBsn9xtpsnkmmSez
iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/album/id/1774041899
Mark's programme notes:https://oboeclassics.com/Blake_notes.pdf
Words of the songs:https://oboeclassics.com/Blake_poems.pdf
The physical CDs have still not arrived; when they do, I'll post again.

Album · 2024 · 26 Songs

06/09/2024

Wander through the Balkans with Teodora Pejasinovic Proud and Eneida Larti, in their new streamed album. They showcase eight pieces for oboe and piano by Balkan composers who skilfully integrate the vibrant folk traditions of the Balkan region with their own compositional voices. More details (including comprehensive background notes) are at www.oboeclassics.com/digital

05/09/2024

Here's a fascinating video about the music Lonarc played at the IDRS this summer by Wendt and Roxburgh, talking with one of the composers. Lots of musical excerpts. Judy Proctor Adrian Rowlands

Lonarc Oboe Trio Oboes Joseph Sanders + Adrian Rowlands Cor Anglais Judy Proctor Lonarc Double Reed Quartet Oboe Joseph Sanders Oboe d’Amore Adrian ...

26/07/2024

Is this actually music? Well, yes! Sarah Roper, IDRS President, commented "Great! Bravi to you all three. That was an amazing performance and what a brilliant piece!". The three were Judy Proctor, Adrian Rowlands and Joseph Sanders, and the piece is on the streaming sites. Well done all!

23/07/2024

The enterprising Lonarc Oboe Trio are playing at IDRS24: on Thursday they explore their traditional repertoire https://open.spotify.com/track/52fDJAYb4HgkFrWfqOfhHq?si=962eba06df6c4b7b, and on Wednesday they are performing the weird and wonderful Trio Shadow-Play by Edwin Roxburgh. https://open.spotify.com/track/6DMh5vQikGJXSrQaEJYQKM?si=e3e1dc7008c64d4d. Judy Proctor

22/06/2024

A lovely review of Sarah Roper's album in the latest Double Reed News, with Cuarteto Emispherio.

13/06/2024

Featured CD - Rare Goossens. Here is the opening of the Marcello Concerto, recorded in 1947 with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Walter Susskind. The album is on all the regular download/streaming sites, of from www.oboeclassics.com

02/05/2024

1,331 streams in 28 days on Spotify? This is an unusual record for a track that's been around for a while. Excited, I checked it out and found that it has got on to a well-used playlist, 'Klassische Musik zum Einschlafen'. I had to look up that last word - it means 'fall asleep'.
https://open.spotify.com/track/6M2IGi4crttvmvmgXTquYc?si=c23f30037ae64acf

Ludwig van Beethoven, Jeremy Polmear, Diana Ambache · Song · 1996

27/04/2024

Can contemporary oboe music be funny? Of course, but in this piece I've added an imaginary commentary. It entertained the player, Paul Goodey-Avedisyan; I hope it entertains you!