| Recordings Out Now! |
A new release on the Oboe
Classics label. This CD of the virtuoso oboe music of the 19th
century oboist/ composer Antonino Pasculli includes five of his works
including Le Api adn I Vespri Siciliani. The CD includes a booklet with
a article (in English, German and Italian) about Pasculli and his times
as well as a photograph of Pasculli and also of his oboe. The Oboe Classics website also
includes an article that I have written about learning the music of
Pasculli .
The CD is available from Oboe
Classics, Amazon.co.uk or
from good record stores.
| From the Metier Label: |
The recording which includes oboe music by Michael Finnisy, titled 'lost Lands' was released Last December at a concert in London. The Cd is on the 'Metier' label and can be purchased either from MetierRecords or from Amazon.co.uk and of course all good record stores.
The Cd includes:
Runnin’ Wild (solo oboe)
Moon’s Goin’ Down (solo oboe)
Dilok (oboe and Percussion) With Julian Warburton
Delal (oboe and Percussion) With Julian Warburton
The CD has been well recieved in the press:
Arnold
Whittall writing in the April edition of the Gramophone states...
"Virtuosic
and explosive music, with a frame of reference from jazz to Kurdistan,
which proves itself fully engaged with the world
Pianist lan Pace, who was the star of
last year's double-CD Finnissy album from METIER (4/02), takes a back
seat in this latest addition to the series. It is as well recorded as
ever, and offers a substantial and memorable programme. This time it's
Christopher Redgate, oboist in Pace's Topologies ensemble, who is
featured, and Redgate's phenomenal breath and finger control is heard to
startling effect in two solo pieces whose titles - Moon goin' down and
Runnin' wild evoke jazz standards, while steering well clear of the
clichés often found in more explicit 'crossover' music."
While Christopher Dingle writing in the
BBC Music Magazine for May comments:
"This invaluable disk in Metier’s
Finnissy series focuses on woodwind instruments, notably the Oboe, or,
to be more precise, the Oboe as moulded, manipulated and cajoled by
Christopher Redgate. All seven pieces take as their starting point
aspects of musical cultures that Finnissy views as being threatened in
some way. This is not too hard to grasp in the Azerbaijani echoes
of Keroiylu of the Arabic inspired trilogy of the Dilok,Delal, and
Kulamen Dilan, the first two of which find Redgate's open throated
sound wonderfully evocative of the middle eastern antecedents of the
Oboe, with succinct percussion support from Julian Warburton. By
contrast, it takes Finnissy's insistence that jazz is ‘an emotional
state rather than a harmonic/rhythmic proscription’ to unlock the more
elusive notion that the freewheeling fantasias of moons going down and
running wild are blues inspired."
Also available from the Metier label:
Luca Frencesconi's 'Plot in Fiction' for
oboe/ cor anglais and ensemble:
Christopher Redgate - Oboe /Cor anglais
Barrie Webb - Conductor
Firebird Ensemble
"It (Plot in Fiction) has a solo part of stamina-sapping virtuosity, admirably played by Christopher Redgate." Christopher Thomas - Web Review
Quintets for Oboe and String Quartet - With the Kreutzer Quartet
Christopher Fox - Quintet
James Clarke - Quintet
Roger Redgate - quintet
Howard Skempton - Garland for oboe and string trio
Michael Finnissy - New work for solo oboe and small ensemble
A CD of works by Roger Redgate including
Ausgangspunkte
(solo oboe)
Eperon (oboe and Percussion) with Julian Warburton