The oboe's solo literature is not large, and the list of works represented on this recital disc by Japanese oboist Katsuya Watanabe may not look promising at first glance, with composers traditionally thought of as minor and an extended "morceau de salon" by the Czech early Romantic Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda. All of it is written for the oboe rather than being arranged from other music, however, and in this resides its utter charm. These are "technical" pieces, written to display aspects of the oboe's, and the oboist's, ...
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The oboe's solo literature is not large, and the list of works represented on this recital disc by Japanese oboist Katsuya Watanabe may not look promising at first glance, with composers traditionally thought of as minor and an extended "morceau de salon" by the Czech early Romantic Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda. All of it is written for the oboe rather than being arranged from other music, however, and in this resides its utter charm. These are "technical" pieces, written to display aspects of the oboe's, and the oboist's, capabilities, and Watanabe, taking that as a basis, treats the music with the utmost lyricism. The effect is unique. The program is carefully framed for maximum effect, with the 1955 Sonata for oboe and piano of William Alwyn immediately showing what Watanabe can do. The first two movements are both moderate in tempo, with the first movement consisting of a series of melodic fits and starts that could easily seem aimless in the wrong hands. With Watanabe, however, it becomes the portal to...
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