Albinoni like many other Italian Baroque composers had a particular fondness for the Oboe. He composed this work in 1715 with the original instrumentation of Oboe 2 Violins Viola Cello and Continuo. This Boosey & Hawkes edition has a Piano reduction of the original instrumentation.

The 'Boosey Woodwind & Brass Method' is a series of books by Chris Morgan designed to be used during lessons & practise sessions.To get the most out of the book work through it with your teacher playing the music & doing the activities. The CDs provided will help you between lessons - they contain performances & backing tracks of most of the pieces in the book as well as listening activities.Boosey Oboe Method 1 is the beginners level book.

British composer Benjamin Britten’s Six Metamorphoses After Ovid is a piece of program music written for solo Oboe in 1951. The piece was inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses and each of the titular six metamorphoses is based on a character from Roman mythology and includes an inscription summarizing their story. The music for each metamorphosis reflects its character atmosphere or plot – for example the fifth metamorphosis Narcissus (‘who fell in love with his own image and became a flower’) is marked lento piacevole and is meant to convey the act of staring at a reflection in a pool. By virtue of the musicbeing written for a solo instrument Britten allows the performer to be highly expressive so that the characteristics of each God can be fully represented through the performance. With a performance time of ca. 13 minutes this virtuoso solo piece will quickly become a staple in any intermediate to advanced Oboe player’s repertoire.

These Five Pieces For Oboe were first performed on 14th May 1982 at the Tonhalle Zurich. Arranged for Solo Oboe.

990 Difficult Passages From the Symphonic Repertoire-The selection of difficult passages will serve a double purpose. It will give the Orchestral player an opportunity to practice such passages in preparation for actual performances of the respective work and it offers material for general practice which in variety and scope of its technical problems reaches far beyond any studies written especially for technical practice.

on Themes by Gluck-Freely adapted from various movements from Six Sonatas for two violins and figured bass published in London 1746.The edition is part of the ABRSM syllabus (grade 5 7).

from Trilogy-Inner Song was written for a festival of Stephan Wolpe's music in Germany 1992. It was first performed at this festival by Heinz Holliger.

Pan (who played upon the reed pipe which was Syrinx, his beloved) Phaeton (who rode upon the chariot of the sun for one day and was hurled into the river Padus by a thunderbolt) Niobe (who, lamenting the death of her fourteen children, was turned into a mountain) Bacchus (at whose feasts is heard the noise of gaggling women's tattling tongues and shouting out of boys) Narcissus (who fell in love with his own image and became a flower) Arethusa (who, flying from the love of Alpheus the river got, was turned into a fountain)