Search - Crowther, Hurd, Leighton :: English Oboe Concertos

Exquisitely Delicate, enticing

CLAUDIO | P.O. Box 30283, NAIROBI Kenya | 12/23/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The 2nd Movement of Michael Hurd's Concerto da Camera was selected by critic Fiona Tarkington among the classical recordings for passengers on an international flight. I was instantly hooked by the melancholic but extremely sweet -and easy to like- melodic line and irreproachable performance. I found that the whole Concerto is a little masterpiece. Tremendously jovial Philip Lane's Three Spanish Dances are even more immediately accesible to the listener (if that is possible), and his Habanera is as irresistible as the Pied Piper.
These two pearls are worth the album by themselves. Other works included (Leighton, Blezzard) are perhaps a little more musically involved, but nothing goes beyond the level of appreciation of, say, any lover of Vaughan Williams."

Great cd!

W. C. Verbaarschot | the Netherlands | 08/13/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This cd with english oboemusic is not full of well-known music, but it is

worth while listening.

I even bought Hurd and Lane on sheetmusci to play is myself"