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Berlioz's Lost Oboe: Early French Romantic Music for Oboe and Piano

Berlioz's Lost Oboe: Early French Romantic Music for Oboe and Piano

Artist
Christopher Palameta
Olivia Sham
Cover RAM2108
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Classical
Code
RAM2108
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  • 2 Nocturnes, Op. 50: No. 1 in D Minor
    Composer(s) Nicolas-Charles Bochsa
    Artist(s) Olivia Sham Christopher Palameta

    2 Nocturnes, Op. 50: No. 1 in D Minor

    11:43
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  • Vocalises de Crescentini transcrites pour le hautbois: No. 1, Largo espressivo
    Composer(s) Gustave Vogt
    Artist(s) Olivia Sham Christopher Palameta

    Vocalises de Crescentini transcrites pour le hautbois: No. 1, Largo espressivo

    02:56
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  • Vocalises de Crescentini transcrites pour le hautbois: No. 2, Largo
    Composer(s) Gustave Vogt
    Artist(s) Olivia Sham Christopher Palameta

    Vocalises de Crescentini transcrites pour le hautbois: No. 2, Largo

    01:58
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  • Aranjuez, Op. 34
    Composer(s) Stanislas Verroust
    Artist(s) Olivia Sham Christopher Palameta

    Aranjuez, Op. 34

    06:43
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  • Elégie sur la mort d’un objet chéri
    Composer(s) Henri Brod
    Artist(s) Olivia Sham Christopher Palameta

    Elégie sur la mort d’un objet chéri

    05:21
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  • Les soupirs de la harpe éolienne, Op. 121: No. 1, Adagio di molto in A-Flat Major
    Composer(s) Friedrich Wilhelm Kalkbrenner
    Artist(s) Olivia Sham

    Les soupirs de la harpe éolienne, Op. 121: No. 1, Adagio di molto in A-Flat Major

    04:36
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  • Grand Sonata for Oboe and Piano, Op. 35: II. Romanze
    Composer(s) Johann Peter Pixis
    Artist(s) Olivia Sham Christopher Palameta

    Grand Sonata for Oboe and Piano, Op. 35: II. Romanze

    05:36
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  • L’art du chant appliqué au piano, Op. 70: No. 17, Sérénade de l'opéra "L'amant jaloux" de Grétry
    Composer(s) Sigismond Thalberg
    Artist(s) Olivia Sham

    L’art du chant appliqué au piano, Op. 70: No. 17, Sérénade de l'opéra "L'amant jaloux" de Grétry

    03:05
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  • Nocturne in A Minor
    Composer(s) Louis-Emmanuel Jadin
    Artist(s) Olivia Sham Christopher Palameta

    Nocturne in A Minor

    09:27
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  • Liederkreis, Op. 39: No. 5, Mondnacht
    Composer(s) Robert Schumann
    Artist(s) Olivia Sham Christopher Palameta

    Liederkreis, Op. 39: No. 5, Mondnacht

    04:10
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Total running time: 55 minutes.

    Album information

    Berlioz's Lost Oboe unearths a handful of evocative compositions from early nineteenth-century France which counter the commonly-held view that the oboe was considered incompatible with the aesthetics of Romantic expression. 

    ‘It is simply a badge of historical injustice that oboists must wear.’ Such was the lament of Leon Goosens, echoing the commonly-held view that the nineteenth century was a time of crisis in the history of the oboe. Like a snowball effect, the idée reçue that the instrument fell into disuse because it was considered incompatible with the aesthetics of Romantic expression has been handed down across generations.

    These works, all of which have never been recorded before, belong to a large corpus of neglected nineteenth-century chamber music for oboe and fortepiano, and bear witness to a lively, dynamic tradition of wind playing in France. Performed here on a ten-keyed French oboe by Guillaume Adler (Paris, c.1835) and a fortepiano by Erard (Paris, 1840), these sentimental and lyrical rarities beautifully highlight the unique timbres and playing characteristics of these rare original models.