Oboe concerto

A number of concertos (as well as non-concerto works) have been written for the oboe, both as a solo instrument as well as in conjunction with other solo instrument(s), and accompanied by string orchestra, chamber orchestra, full orchestra, concert band, or similar large ensemble.

These include concertos by the following composers:

Baroque

Tomaso Albinoni
Johann Sebastian Bach (reconstruction from harpsichord concerto)
Johann Friedrich Fasch
Christoph Förster
Carl Heinrich Graun
Christoph Graupner
George Frideric Handel
Johann Adolph Hasse
Alessandro Marcello
Johann Joachim Quantz
Alessandro Scarlatti
Giovanni Battista Sammartini
Giuseppe Sammartini
Georg Philipp Telemann
Antonio Vivaldi

Concerto for 2 Oboes in F Major, Op. 9, No. 3 - 1. Allegro

Tomaso Albinoni's Concerto for Two Oboes in F major. Performed by the Advent Chamber Orchestra with oboists Humbert Lucarelli and Edino Biaggi

Concerto for 2 Oboes in F Major, Op. 9, No. 3 - 2. Adagio

Concerto for 2 Oboes in F Major, Op. 9, No. 3 - 3. Allegro

Vivaldi's Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra in C major (RV 447) - 2. Andante

The 2nd movement of Antonio Vivaldi's Oboe Concerto in C major, RV 447, Performed by the Advent Chamber Orchestra with oboist Edino Biaggi

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Classical

Romantic

Antonio Pasculli - Gran Concerto

Antonio Pasculli's Gran Concerto. Performed by Alex Klein, oboe, and Lisa Bergman, piano

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Modern/Contemporary

Kalevi Aho
William Alwyn
Khanyafi Chinakaev [ru]
Hendrik Andriessen
Malcolm Arnold
Walter Aschaffenburg
Tadeusz Baird
Sally Beamish
David Bedford
Arthur Benjamin (on themes of Domenico Cimarosa)
Lennox Berkeley
Michael Berkeley
John Biggs
Judith Bingham
Anthony Burgess
Edwin Carr
Elliott Carter^[2]
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
John Corigliano^[3]
Peter Maxwell Davies^[4]
Edison Denisov
Bill Douglas
Joël-François Durand
Ross Edwards
Lukas Foss
Jean Françaix
John Gardner
Eugene Goossens
Michael Zev Gordon
Helen Grime
John Harbison
Christos Hatzis
Frigyes Hidas
Jennifer Higdon^[5]
Alan Hovhaness
Jacques Ibert
Gordon Jacob
John Joubert
Jouni Kaipainen
Graeme Koehne
Thomas Oboe Lee
Malcolm Lipkin
Bent Lorentzen
Salvatore Macchia
James MacMillan^[6]
Bruno Maderna
Ursula Mamlok
Bohuslav Martinů
Peter Mieg
Darius Milhaud
Anthony Milner
Paul Moravec
Dominic Muldowney
David Mullikin
Thea Musgrave
Arne Nordheim
Sean Osborn
Haim Permont
Osmo Tapio Räihälä
Bernard Rands
Alan Rawsthorne
Malcolm D Robertson
George Rochberg
Christopher Rouse^[7]
Edwin Roxburgh
Andrey Rubtsov
Poul Ruders
Harald Sæverud
Peter Schickele
Rodion Shchedrin
Roger Steptoe
Hilary Tann
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Carl Vine
Gwyneth Walker
Grace Williams
John Williams
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
John Woolrich
Marco Aurelio Yano
Isang Yun
Eugene Zador
Bernd Alois Zimmermann
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

References

^ "Beethoven's lost oboe concerto performed". USA Today. March 2, 2003. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
^ Carter, Elliott (1987). "Oboe Concerto: Programme Note". Boosey & Hawkes. Retrieved November 5, 2015.
^ Corigliano, John. Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra (1975). G. Schirmer Inc. Retrieved November 6, 2015.
^ Davies, Peter Maxwell (1987). "Strathclyde Concerto No. 1 for Oboe and Orchestra: Programme Note". Boosey & Hawkes. Retrieved November 8, 2015.
^ Anthony, Michael (November 5, 2005). "Music Review: St. Paul Chamber Orchestra; Higdon's new Oboe Concerto produces a standing ovation". Star Tribune.
^ MacMillan, James (2010). "MacMillan, James: Oboe Concerto". Boosey & Hawkes. Retrieved November 5, 2015.
^ Smith, Steve (November 17, 2013). "Shifting Gears to Explore the Realm of the Oboe: Liang Wang Performs Christopher Rouse's Oboe Concerto". The New York Times. Retrieved November 5, 2015.