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 ...

The Mozart Oboe Concerto begins normally enough. The orchestra introduces two themes, one jaunty, one questioning. But then something odd happens. “The oboist enters with this crazy scale up to a high ...

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 ...

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 ...

ASPEN – Richard Woodhams left his native Palo Alto in 1964. By his estimation, he thus missed the hippie counterculture that swamped the entire San Francisco Bay area by a matter of minutes. Had he ...

Anyone who knows Tucson Symphony Orchestra oboist Lindabeth Binkley knows this about her: "I don't run unless someone is chasing me or I have to chase after somebody." So it's a curious sight to see ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...