{"id":2228,"date":"2025-06-21T13:42:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T11:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vincentbernhardt.org\/en\/?page_id=2228"},"modified":"2025-06-22T10:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T08:46:07","slug":"handel-oboe-concertos","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vincentbernhardt.org\/en\/discography\/handel-oboe-concertos\/","title":{"rendered":"Handel: Oboe Concertos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/vincentbernhardt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Haendel-Concertos-Pour-Hautbois-Cover-dis.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2408\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Details:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Year: 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Label: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brilliantclassics.com\/articles\/h\/handel-oboe-concertos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Brilliant Classics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Works by: Georg Friedrich Handel<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Artists:<br>Andrius Puskunigis, oboe &amp; oboe d&#8217;amore<br>Vincent Bernhardt, harpsichord &amp; conductor<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.koncertusale.lt\/en\/collective\/klaipeda-chamber-orchestra\/\">Klaip\u0117da Chamber Orchestra<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Duration: 1&nbsp;h 04 min &#8211; 22 tracks<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Available on:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-color wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.fr\/Handel-Oboe-Concertos-Andrius-Puskunigis\/dp\/B0CSJ5L58C\/\" style=\"border-radius:4px;color:#e7d3b1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amazon<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--2\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-color wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/music.amazon.fr\/albums\/B0B1JRQPDR\" style=\"border-radius:4px;color:#e7d3b1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amazon Music<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--3\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-color wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/music.youtube.com\/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k3J3JOgGp5uYKQqxkPjN9878fSceCHk3I\" style=\"border-radius:4px;color:#e7d3b1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">YouTube Music<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--4\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-color wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dJt4RLP3KT8\" style=\"border-radius:4px;color:#e7d3b1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">YouTube<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--5\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-color wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.deezer.com\/album\/319582617\" style=\"border-radius:4px;color:#e7d3b1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Deezer<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--6\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-color wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/music.apple.com\/album\/handel-oboe-concertos\/1624900845\" style=\"border-radius:4px;color:#e7d3b1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Apple Music<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--7\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-color wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/6CyYye9AOrng3cvwIuLHfL\" style=\"border-radius:4px;color:#e7d3b1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Spotify<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Handel: Oboe Concertos\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dJt4RLP3KT8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>This album is devoted to Handel&#8217;s concertante music for solo oboe, of which only a few concertos have survived. He was particularly fond of the instrument and assigned many solos to it in his oratorios, operas, concerti grossi and sonatas. He is even reported to have said of his early oboe works: &#8216;I used to write like the D-v [Devil] in those days, but chiefly for the oboe, which was my favourite instrument.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further concertos for oboe have been attributed to Handel by the musicologists Fritz Stein and Fulvio &amp; Sandro Caldini: one in E flat major and two more, both presented here in world-premiere recordings, in C minor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 6 Concerti grossi Op.3 form the first printed collection of Handel\u2019s orchestral compositions. Formerly known as the \u2018oboe concertos\u2019, the volume was published by John Walsh in 1734 \u2013 not necessarily on the composer\u2019s own initiative \u2013 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To extend Handel&#8217;s oboe repertoire the artists have fashioned two concertos, for oboe and oboe d\u2019amore, 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\u2019s day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This album presents the corpus of oboe concertos by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), of which unfortunately few original works have survived. The composer, however, was particularly fond of this instrument and learned to play it from his teacher, the organist Friedrich Zachow. He gave it many solos in oratorios, operas, concerti grossi and sonatas, and is reported to have said of his early works for oboe: &#8220;I used to write like the D-v [Devil] in those days, but chiefly for the oboe, which was my favourite instrument.&#8221;<br>The Oboe Concerto in G minor is his best known, furthermore we hear two Concerto-Pasticcio\u2019s for Oboe and Strings, a Concerto a Cinque in C minor, a Concerto in C minor and the adaptation of the Concerto grosso Op. 3 No. 3 for oboe and strings.<br>Excellent performances by Andrius Puskunigis and the Klaip\u0117da Chamber Orchestra, following the principals of Historically Informed Performance Practice while playing modern instruments. Puskunigis\u2019 earlier recording of Bach Oboe Concertos (BC 94991) and Telemann received excellent reviews, praising his vitality, flexibility and \u201cSpielfreude\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">From the album:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Handel: Oboe Concertos\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/6CyYye9AOrng3cvwIuLHfL?utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Details: Year: 2022 Label: Brilliant Classics Works by: Georg Friedrich Handel Artists:Andrius Puskunigis, oboe &amp; oboe d&#8217;amoreVincent Bernhardt, harpsichord &amp; conductorKlaip\u0117da Chamber Orchestra Duration: 1&nbsp;h 04 min &#8211; 22 tracks &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vincentbernhardt.org\/en\/discography\/handel-oboe-concertos\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Handel: Oboe Concertos&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2229,"parent":849,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2228","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vincentbernhardt.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vincentbernhardt.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vincentbernhardt.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vincentbernhardt.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vincentbernhardt.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2228"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vincentbernhardt.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2266,"href":"https:\/\/vincentbernhardt.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2228\/revisions\/2266"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vincentbernhardt.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vincentbernhardt.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vincentbernhardt.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}