Handel - Oboe Concertos
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 96091
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 8th July 2022
Contents
Works
Concerti grossi (6), op.3Concerto-pasticcio in D major
Concerto a 5 in C minor
Concerto in C minor
Oboe Concerto no.3 in G minor, HWV287
Artists
Andrius Puskunigis (oboe, oboe d’amore)Klaipeda Chamber Orchestra
Conductor
Vincent BernhardtWorks
Concerti grossi (6), op.3Concerto-pasticcio in D major
Concerto a 5 in C minor
Concerto in C minor
Oboe Concerto no.3 in G minor, HWV287
Artists
Andrius Puskunigis (oboe, oboe d’amore)Klaipeda Chamber Orchestra
Conductor
Vincent BernhardtAbout
His some 20 concertos for a solo instrument are mainly for the organ and include just one violin concerto and three oboe concertos (HWV 301, 302a and 287). The latter, featured here, is the best known, as it also appears transcribed for other instruments.
Further concertos for oboe have been attributed to Handel by the musicologists Fritz Stein and Fulvio & Sandro Caldini: one in E flat major and two more, both presented here in world-premiere recordings, in C minor.
The 6 Concerti grossi, op.3, form the first printed collection of Handel’s orchestral compositions. Formerly known as the ‘oboe concertos’, the volume was published by John Walsh in 1734 – not necessarily on the composer’s own initiative – from a variety of pieces composed over a period of some 20 years. The orchestration in the Walsh edition is particularly unconvincing, with numerous octave doublings and a virtual absence of elements typical of the concertante style. Vincent Bernhardt has therefore proposed a new instrumentation, organised according to the principle of dialogue between groups that characterises the concertante language of this period. An improvised theorbo prelude precedes the work.
To extend Handel’s oboe repertoire the artists have fashioned two concertos, for oboe and oboe d’amore, out of eight selected movements that are essentially built on castrato arias from the operas, a practice in line with the pasticcios created in Handel’s day.
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