Albrecht Mayer is a rarity among reed players, achieving a level of recognition among audiences more like that reached by many violinists or pianists. His recordings of music arranged for oboe or English horn from its original instrumentation or even from vocal music have sold well, thanks to his ability to make his instruments sing. For 2012's Song of the Reeds, Mayer -- and colleagues -- presents selections that are specifically for oboe or English horn, but once again, the idea of the oboe acting as a singing voice is ...
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Albrecht Mayer is a rarity among reed players, achieving a level of recognition among audiences more like that reached by many violinists or pianists. His recordings of music arranged for oboe or English horn from its original instrumentation or even from vocal music have sold well, thanks to his ability to make his instruments sing. For 2012's Song of the Reeds, Mayer -- and colleagues -- presents selections that are specifically for oboe or English horn, but once again, the idea of the oboe acting as a singing voice is the guiding principal. The works are all Romantic or post-Romantic era pieces, when songs without words were a dominant form of music. The Schumann Romanzen are the most familiar of the all the selections, standards of the oboe repertoire, but everything else is relatively unknown. The Schilflieder -- lending its name to the album's title -- adds a viola to the oboe and piano. The five pieces were inspired by the poetry of Nikolaus Lenau and are very much of their time: full of...
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