I was wondering if anyone knew a concerto written for oboe that's not of extreme difficulty to play. I have to learn a concerto for a concert coming up, and I'm unsure what I should play. The arrangement must be written for band though.
You could do Mozart's Concerto in C. You'd need someone to arrange it for band for you, though. I don't think there are any oboe concertos written for band.
Just an idea (which could be completely screwy!! lol) – are you going to have the whole band honking away behind you? It might be possible to arrange an oboe and continuo piece (say) for oboe solo plus pairs of flutes, clarinets, horns and bassoons. That way you'd have a unique work which would be easily playable in non-band situations.
(Just picturing those 15 saxophones blurting, squawking and wailing in the band accompaniment, covering up the oboe's delicate nuances ... LIKE THEY ALWAYS DO!!!)
The Mozart piece, the Cimarosa or Marcello are great ideas! Thanks. I'm looking into them.
Lol. Thanks, I wasn't going to be the one to admit the comment about the blaring band. And no microphone is allowed...so...gotta put that into consideration. Although saxophones aren't so much of a problem as over enthusiastic flutists. =) Gotta love em.
*like a dog gnawing at a bone* ... Just home from a concert which included the Mozart Serenade in Eb K375 in its (apparently) original scoring of 2 clarinets, 2 horns and 2 bassoons. Would sound very nice accompanying an oboe solo!
(Over-enthusiastic flutes – the whole $#%#@ lot of 'em – could be relegated to the reserves bench for the duration!)
It must be a beginning of spring thing, cuz I also had a performance last night. It was going well till the full orchestra played. We'd only played the concertos once...and uh....there was this gap of 103 measures of rests. Therefore, oboe was supposed to get a cue....and the conductor forget about me....
* cries *
So like I did this jazz-oboe -improv- thing to make up for the measures lost. It got ugly.
Ooooouuuuuccccchhhhhh! – – *thinks* Conductor should be banished to the reserves bench with the flutes.
It probably wasn't half as ugly as you imagine; most of the audience wouldn't have thought anything was amiss ... but must have wondered if whacking-oboe-round-cranium-of-conductor was in the urtext ...
Luckily, my concert only involved sitting and listening on my part ... and trying not to think of the running joke I had with my gf: everything was simian – clarinets and bassoons were marmosets and baboons – I would have erupted had I thought of a french horn equivalent.
(Early autumn here in Australia. Audience members were rehearsing their winter coughs and sneezes. Some wonderful performances, including music from the musicians.)
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