Performances and teaching materials coming soon for the following pieces:
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (arr. Althea Talbot-Howard): The Deep River Sonata
Ruth Gipps: The Piper of Dreams
Kathy Henkel: Highland Fantasy
Ulysses Kay: Prelude (originally for solo flute)
Dorothy Rudd Moore: Baroque Suite (originally for solo cello)
Florence Price: Adoration (for organ)
Florence Price: The Deserted Garden (for violin and piano)
Florence Price: Sunset (voice and piano)
Germaine Tailleferre: Berceuse (originally for violin and piano)
Germaine Tailleferre: Pastorale (originally for violin and piano)
Earnest Simms: Sonata for Oboe (1947) (the first known sonata by a Black American composer)
Marcelle Soulage: Pastorale, Op. 15 for oboe and harp (or piano)
William Grant Still: Three Songs--Bayou Home, If You Should Go, Song for the Lonely
Jacqueline Wilson: Xitway for solo oboe (2022)
Duo/Trio Chamber Music
Connor Chee: Trio for Oboe, Bassoon, Piano*
Daniel Cueto: Encuentros for Oboe and Bassoon*
Meanwhile, here are some examples of great oboe performers in an array of styles:
Euridice Alvarez
New works by Latin American composers
Yousef Lateef
An incredible jazz oboist.
Francois Leleux
One of the most respected classical oboe players from the French playing tradition. His technique and creative musical ideas are unsurpassed.
Katherine Needleman
An American oboist who performs with the Baltimore Symphony and is one of the foremost musicians promoting music by traditionally excluded performers. She has a LOT of solo and chamber repertoire on Youtube where she is also accompanying herself on oboe.
http://katherineneedleman.com/lockdown-oboe-solo-concerts
Celine Moinet
A French oboist performing Clara Schumann’s Three Romances
Marcel Tabuteau
The “grandfather” of American oboe playing and pedagogy.
Young players can sound great! Here’s a lovely example of 2 oboists performing a double concerto by Albinoni.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzRqSgaOlnk
Oboe can rock! Here’s a cover of “Smells Like Teen Spirit” for oboe and guitar
“Bohemian Rhapsody” by 5 oboes/english horn students in Weimar Germany.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goeYNLK_0X8