Elevazione - The Magic of the Oboe

A pleasing programme of Baroque oboe works given a modern finish

Record and Artist Details

Composer or Director: Johann Sebastian Bach, Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni, Alessandro Marcello, Domenico Cimarosa, Domenico Zipoli

Genre:

Orchestral

Label: Northern Lights

Media Format: CD or Download

Media Runtime: 57

Mastering:

DDD

Catalogue Number: BIS-CD5017

Tracks:

Composition Artist Credit
(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
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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