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 ...

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 ...

We meet an imaginative 13-year-old oboist who draws on colors, shapes, and stories in her performance of Marcello’s Oboe Concerto. An 18-year-old violist draws on his multicultural background in his ...

Concerto for Oboe and Strings Alexei Ogrintchouk, Oboe Swedish Chamber Orchestra Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Concerto for Oboe and Strings Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Swedish Chamber Orchestra ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Since the death of Richard Hickox two years ago, Vaughan Williams has lacked an effective champion. On the basis of ...

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 ...

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 ...