Giovanni Boni is a little known Italian composer from – presumably – the first half of the 18th century. Multiple records of composers with identical or similar names from that period can be found whocould indeed have been one and the same person and the Giovanni Boni at hand could have been any or none of them! Evelyn Rothwell edited and arranged four pieces from the Walsh edition of the “Solos for a GermanFlute Hoboy or Violin compos’d by Sigr. Giovanni Boni” into the Oboe Sonata In G for Oboe with Piano accompaniment.This hidden gem of Italian Baroque music should not be dismissed as the charmingly melodic sonata is a particular delight for musicians and audiences alike. The four movements (Preludio – Largo Allegro Alla Siciliana Allegro) can be played separatelyor together their total performance time is approximately 8:30 minutes.Boni’s Sonata In G is well within the capabilities of the average student or amateur Oboe player and aunique addition to the solo player’s repertoire!

Witold Lutoslawski's Epitaph for Oboe and Piano. This piece was written in 1979 as a tribute to the composer and pianist Alan Richardson (1904-1978). The first performance given by Janet Craxton AndIan Brown in London 1980. Duration: 5 minutes.

Commissioned by the Havant Chamber Orchestra and first performed on 16 June 1979 with Geoffrey Bridge oboe and Peter Craddock Conductor. Duration c. 13 minutes. Full score and parts are available on hire from the publisher.

Ursula Mamlok was born in Berlin in 1923, but was forced to emigrate via Ecuador to New York in 1939 because of her Jewish descent. In 2006 she returned to the city where she was born.In about three minutes, the small and charming two-part piece Kontraste [Contrasts] for oboe and harp captivates with clarity and limitation to the essentials. The name says it all: A lively humoresque is followed by a rather delicate, even almost melancholy second movement which is headed 'largo e mesto'. The composition was written in 2009/10 as a birthday present for the Swiss oboist - and this work's dedicatee - Heinz Holliger (and his wife, the harpist Ursula Holliger). / Hautbois Et Piano