Handel: Oboe Concertos

This album is devoted to Handel's concertante music for solo oboe, of which only a few concertos have survived.

Composer: George Frideric Handel
Artists: Andrius Puskunigis (oboe & oboe d'amore), Vincent Bernhardt (harpsichord & conductor), Klaipeda Chamber Orchestra

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The 6 Concerti grossi Op.3 form the first printed collection of Handel’s orchestral compositions. Formerly known as the ‘oboe concertos’, the volume was published by John Walsh in 1734 – not necessarily on the composer’s own initiative – 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.

To extend Handel's oboe repertoire the artists have fashioned two concertos, for oboe and oboe d’amore, 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’s day.

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: "I used to write like the D-v [Devil] in those days, but chiefly for the oboe, which was my favourite instrument."
The Oboe Concerto in G minor is his best known, furthermore we hear two Concerto-Pasticcio’s 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.

Tracklist:
Concerto-pasticcio in C Major:
00:00:00 I. Largo
00:01:46 II. Allegro
00:04:33 III. Largo
00:08:47 IV. Allegro

Oboe Concerto in G Minor, HWV 287:
00:14:24 I. Grave
00:16:56 II. Allegro
00:18:34 III. Sarabande. Largo
00:20:46 IV. Allegro

Concerto in C Minor:
00:22:29 I. Allegro
00:27:46 II. Adagio
00:31:00 III. Allegro

Concerto grosso No. 3 in G Major, Op. 3, HWV 314:
00:35:29 I. Largo e staccato
00:36:35 II. Allegro
00:39:01 III. Adagio
00:40:10 IV. Allegro

Concerto á 5 in C Minor:
00:43:48 I. Allegro ma non presto
00:45:46 II. Adagio
00:48:10 III. Allegro

Concerto-pasticcio in D Major:
00:49:56 I. Larghetto
00:52:30 II. Allegro
00:57:46 III. Larghetto
01:01:02 V. Allegro

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