Oboe Classics

01/12/2025

Out today! Apple's preview facility is a good way to check out this dynamic music and the fantastic playing of Pipers 3. There are programme details at www.oboeclassics.com/digital.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/tempest/1853629928

Album · 2025 · 10 Songs

24/11/2025

Geoffrey Burgess' new album is out! The oboe world as the Classical era was transforming into the Brave New World of Romanticism. Geoffrey plays below, and writes about it on www.oboeclassics.com/digital.
https://open.spotify.com/album/4KuXkUUZyEEWiZnNEPPskG?si=XejOmnqcS3214hCimfEnAA

Various Artists · compilation · 2025 · 8 songs

20/11/2025

Can oboes sound like Armenian dukduks? Here are Pipers 3 in a new album, streaming soon. Mark Baigent

Pipers 3 are three oboists playing various instruments to make sounds never heard before. Details are at https://oboeclassics.com/digital

09/11/2025

We may know Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata, but what about Kreutzer's own music? Here's some, from Geoffrey Burgess' upcoming album.

A taster video for this album of early virtuoso Quintets for oboe & strings.

01/11/2025

What happened after Ramm? Oboist and author Geoffrey Burgess illustrates the vibrant oboe life in Paris as the 18th Century moved into the 19th. For the music we must wait until November 24th, but Geoffrey's extensive description of the era is already available at oboeclassics.com/digital

28/10/2025

Continuing the catalogue review brings us to number 15, the fastest album. But in this excerpt Christopher Redgate mainly plays one note six different ways. The whole album (with booklet notes) is on YouTube.

This taster has some of Berio's Sequenza VII. The whole album is on YouTube (search on 'oboe+').

17/09/2025

Gordon Hunt has performed Carillons with orchestra, so it is good to have his approval for this new version:
"Sarah Roper’s recording shows the complexity and innovation of Carillons in a wonderful way, with beautiful, nuanced sound and dynamics, complex phrasing, and immaculate technique. With the help of this recording... [it] will hopefully become part of the standard oboe repertoire.”

Grace Mary Williams (1906 - 1977) Carillons for Oboe and Orchestra (1965, Rev. 1973) - Piano ReductionSarah Roper, oboe / Ignacio Torner, piano00:00 I Modera...

14/09/2025

Sarah Roper's new video is out! Oboe Classics only makes money from the streamed version, but is happy to recommend this for the extra drama of watching this fascinating piece being performed.

Grace Mary Williams (1906 - 1977) Carillons for Oboe and Orchestra (1965, Rev. 1973) - Piano ReductionSarah Roper, oboe / Ignacio Torner, piano0:00 I Moderat...

15/08/2025

If you think Bach shouldn't be jazzed up, do not watch this video! (The 14th in the Oboe Classics Catalogue).

A sample track from The Sheba Sound (two oboes, bassoon and harpsichord) album Crossing Musical Boundaries

01/08/2025

Ralph Vaughan Williams encouraged many female composers at the Royal College in London in the 1930s - Elizabeth Maconchy, Imogen Holst, Elisabeth Lutyens, Dorothy Gow - and Welsh composer Grace Williams.

He never imposed a style on his pupils, and all these people wrote highly original compositions. Carillons is one such, and is coming soon as a video and for streaming, superbly played by Sarah Roper.