The Privileged Oboe

The Privileged Oboe

ARS 38596 (Ars Produktion, CD)

FIRST RELEASE (23 August 2024)
Tracks: 13
℗ 2024 Ars Produktion
© 2024 Ars Produktion
Main country of recording: Austria
Country of manufacture: European Union
Reviewer: Geoff Pearce
Review of The Privileged Oboe published on 9 September 2024

Emma Black, baroque oboe, cor anglais
Zoe Black, violin
Anne Harvey-Nagl, viola
Peter Trefflinger, cello

Chamber works on period instruments

Johann Christian Bach:

1-2 Quartet in B flat major

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:

3-5 Quartet in F, K 370

Johann Baptist Vaňhal:

6-9 Quartet in F, Op 7 No 1

W A Mozart:

10-12 Quartet in C, K 285

13 Adagio in G, K 580a

Unfortunately, the oboe quartet genre has never attained the status of the clarinet quintet in the public's favour. Yet it is no less appealing a combination, and in the eighteenth century in particular there was an abundance of quartets with oboe, of which only Mozart's virtuoso oboe quartet achieved fame. The oboist Emma Black and her colleagues set two pieces by Mozart's contemporaries alongside this famous work, which, not least thanks to the all-round convincing realisation, arouse curiosity for further compositions in this instrumentation.

Recorded in December 2017 at the Kapelle der Hoffburg, Vienna, Austria.

 

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