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supercantaloupe · 2 years ago

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top 5 oboe concertos 👀

kalliwoda. yes i am counting it even though it's labelled a concertino. idc. it's great and i love it

mozart. yes i know this answer is Basic. but if it was good enough for flutes to steal it's good enough for this list

marcello. i have a soft spot for baroque, sue me. also if this counts then the kalliwoda definitely does. play it in c minor if you're a real one

strauss. idk i just like strauss

vaughan williams. honestly not my thing to play but with the orchestra accompaniment it really is something special to listen to

also honorable mention has to go out to the grunge concerto by scott mcallister. i heard someone play two movements of this at oboe camp a couple summers ago and it's like...the concentrated essence of contemporary composition. it is So

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#sasha speaks #ask meme #sleepover saturday #nablah #ty!#limited myself to oboe and excluded EH here but if i didn't know that the fiala EH and clarient concerto would be on this list #this was tough! i don't actually listen to or play concerti that much. i am very much not a soloist #(<- says the person playing kalliwoda for her recital next month. and played the donizetti EH concertino for the competition last fall.)#(well the rest of my recital material is chamber music. and i have a collab piano major accompanying the kalliwoda.#so i won't be alone up there. i always play better when i have someone to play with anyway)#and tbh once you push past like. the 1840s. a lot of solo oboe rep starts to lose me...#idk i just do not stylistically Get a lot of late romantic and modern stuff from a musicality pov #like it's lovely to listen to but i have such a hard time interpreting it in my own playing #i had a haaard time learning the vaughan williams. i gave up on it ngl. not for me #and i'm not really into a lot of modern concerti. i think they tend to prioritize crazy technique over like...sounding good #and i'm in it for the musicality anyway not the technique. no one will call me a virtuoso by any stretch and i am fine with that #anyway. the grunge concerto gets an honorable mention cause it kind of broke my brain when i first saw it performed lmao #the third mvt is titled 'headbanging' and when i heard it i was like. wow. someone invented metal for oboe. finally #anyway albrecht mayer has an album called Lost And Found that's just a bunch of lesser known 18th century oboe and EH concerti #and i'm obsessed with it. i would list all of those here but that's cheating since...i mean they're Extremely Classical and they all #kiiind of sound the same lmao. but idc!! classical is my bread and butter i LOVE that shit #i really ought to get the sheets to some of those and learn em myself. and the strauss too. finally a late romantic i can get behind...#well my eyes were on something fiala next i think. so we'll see #oboeposting #LONG RAMBLING IN THE TAGS. sorry lmao. i have a lot of thoughts #sorry goossens but i don't care about you <3 idc if you win competitions i'm keeping kalliwoda

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