Elevazione - The Magic of the Oboe
A pleasing programme of Baroque oboe works given a modern finish
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Composer or Director: Johann Sebastian Bach, Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni, Alessandro Marcello, Domenico Cimarosa, Domenico Zipoli
Genre:
Orchestral
Label: Northern Lights
Magazine Review Date: 13/2002
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 57
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: BIS-CD5017

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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(12) Concerti a cinque, Movement: No. 2 in D minor |
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni, Composer
Gordon Hunt, Oboe Norrköping Symphony Orchestra Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni, Composer |
(12) Concerti a cinque, Movement: No. 6 in D |
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni, Composer
Gordon Hunt, Oboe Norrköping Symphony Orchestra Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni, Composer |
Cantata No. 156, 'Ich steh mit einem Fuss im Grabe, Movement: Sinfonia |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Gordon Hunt, Oboe Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Norrköping Symphony Orchestra |
Easter Oratorio, Movement: Sinfonia |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Gordon Hunt, Oboe Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Norrköping Symphony Orchestra |
Concerto for Oboe and Strings |
Alessandro Marcello, Composer
Alessandro Marcello, Composer Gordon Hunt, Oboe Norrköping Symphony Orchestra |
Elevazione |
Domenico Zipoli, Composer
Domenico Zipoli, Composer Gordon Hunt, Oboe Norrköping Symphony Orchestra |
Author:
Gordon Hunt’s latest oboe collection is Baroque‚ though with a few helping modern hands. One of these belonged to Arthur Benjamin‚ whose very free and personal arrangement of four keyboard sonatas by Cimarosa has long been a popular ‘concerto’. It is nicely suited to the oboe‚ easy on the oboist’s fingers and on the listener’s ear‚ and played with much charm here. The arrangement of two of Domenico Zipoli’s keyboard pieces into a single socalled Elevazione by Victoria Hunt is more Romantic still‚ despite the ‘Baroque’ accompaniment of cello‚ strings and organ. That of JS Bach’s wellknown Adagio from the Cantata Ich steh mit einem Fuss im Grabe includes some welljudged ornamentation on the return of the melody; the sinfonia from the Easter Oratorio has its own wonderful melodic eloquence.
Marcello’s C minor Concerto and two concertos from Albinoni’s engaging sets make up a pleasant‚ wellbalanced programme‚ played with a lively sense of style and‚ when called for‚ a nice turn of wit. Hunt‚ incidentally‚ does not play a Baroque oboe but a very modern one indeed‚ a Howarth barely two years old.
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