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The English Oboe: Rediscovered
Various composers

James Turnbull

The English Oboe: Rediscovered

Price: € 19.95
Format: CD
Label: Champs Hill
UPC: 5060212590527
Catnr: CHRCD 051
Release date: 25 February 2013
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Label
Champs Hill
UPC
5060212590527
Catalogue number
CHRCD 051
Release date
25 February 2013
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About the album

In an exciting new project, the young English oboist James Turnbull casts his eye on the works of his countrymen. Gorgeous romantic works from the Victorian era intertwine with vivid, sparkling works by living composers. Particularly noteworthy among these gems is the world premiere recording of John Casken’s Amethyst Deceiver.

Artist(s)

James Turnbull (oboe)

James Turnbull is an accomplished oboist highly sought after for solo and chamber music concerts. Gramophone Magazine described his first recital disc Fierce Tears, as “a notable debut” and Classical Music Magazine selected it as their Editor’s Choice Recording. As a featured artist of the Concert Promoters Network and the Countess of Munster Recital Scheme, James has performed frequently throughout the UK and Europe. He has appeared as a soloist in live radio broadcasts and at festivals including the Oxford Chamber Music Festival, Swaledale, King’s Lynn and Cambridge Summer Music. In 2010, he performed his debut recital at the Wigmore Hall as a Maisie Lewis award winner from the Worshipful Company of Musicians. James was seven when he began his oboe studies,...
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James Turnbull is an accomplished oboist highly sought after for solo and chamber music concerts. Gramophone Magazine described his first recital disc Fierce Tears, as “a notable debut” and Classical Music Magazine selected it as their Editor’s Choice Recording. As a featured artist of the Concert Promoters Network and the Countess of Munster Recital Scheme, James has performed frequently throughout the UK and Europe. He has appeared as a soloist in live radio broadcasts and at festivals including the Oxford Chamber Music Festival, Swaledale, King’s Lynn and Cambridge Summer Music. In 2010, he performed his debut recital at the Wigmore Hall as a Maisie Lewis award winner from the Worshipful Company of Musicians.
James was seven when he began his oboe studies, learning with Irene Pragnell, Melanie Ragge, Celia Nicklin, Tess Miller and Chris Cowie. After gaining a First Class degree in music from Christ Church, Oxford University, James continued his oboe studies at the Royal Academy of Music and under Nicholas Daniel at Trossingen Musikhochschule in Germany, where he was awarded First Class for both his Artist and Soloist diplomas.
James is deeply committed to expanding the oboe repertoire. Composers including Patrick Hawes, Thomas Hewitt Jones and Norbert Froehlich have written for him. He has also worked closely with Michael Berkeley, John Casken, John Woolrich, Thea Musgrave and Tansy Davies on their compositions for oboe. James has a keen interest in researching lost repertoire and bringing to new audiences works which have been rarely performed.
Aside from his performing interests, James is dedicated to broadening the appeal of the oboe and encouraging young people to learn the instrument. To this end, he has launched a project called ‘The Young Person’s Guide to the Oboe’ with an accompanying website LearnToPlayTheOboe.com. James is frequently invited to give masterclasses, workshops, and lectures about the oboe. James plays a Lorée Royal Oboe and Cor Anglais.

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Composer(s)

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Ralph Vaughan Williams was an English composer and folk song collector. His works include operas, ballets, chamber music, secular and religious vocal pieces and orchestral compositions including nine symphonies, written over nearly fifty years. Strongly influenced by Tudor music and English folk-song, his output marked a decisive break in British music from its German-dominated style of the 19th century. He wrote many works for amateur and student performance. He was musically a late developer, not finding his true voice until his late thirties; his studies in 1907–08 with the French composer Maurice Ravel helped him clarify the textures of his music. Vaughan Williams is among the best-known British symphonists, noted for his very wide range of moods, from stormy and impassioned to...
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Ralph Vaughan Williams was an English composer and folk song collector. His works include operas, ballets, chamber music, secular and religious vocal pieces and orchestral compositions including nine symphonies, written over nearly fifty years. Strongly influenced by Tudor music and English folk-song, his output marked a decisive break in British music from its German-dominated style of the 19th century.
He wrote many works for amateur and student performance. He was musically a late developer, not finding his true voice until his late thirties; his studies in 1907–08 with the French composer Maurice Ravel helped him clarify the textures of his music.
Vaughan Williams is among the best-known British symphonists, noted for his very wide range of moods, from stormy and impassioned to tranquil, from mysterious to exuberant. Among the most familiar of his other concert works are Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (1910) and The Lark Ascending (1914). His vocal works include hymns, folk-song arrangements and large-scale choral pieces. He wrote eight works for stage performance between 1919 and 1951. Although none of his operas became popular repertoire pieces, his ballet Job: A Masque for Dancing (1930) was successful and has been frequently staged.

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Gustav Holst

Gustav Holst is a composer nobody seems to know, evne though everyone knows The Planets. This lack of relative fame is a mystery, because the quality of his works for choir and orchestra (including some amazing works for brass orchestra) is often high. Perhaps this can be explained by his aversion to public appearance. After the succes of The Planets he focused on more introvert topics, which resulted among others in his beautiful Hymn of Jesus from 1917. This is typically a work which upon first listening makes you wonder why it's not better known (even though allegedly the work was quite succesful during its own time).  There is, however, also something up with the continuity of Holst as a composer, as if technical challenges stimulated...
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Gustav Holst is a composer nobody seems to know, evne though everyone knows The Planets. This lack of relative fame is a mystery, because the quality of his works for choir and orchestra (including some amazing works for brass orchestra) is often high. Perhaps this can be explained by his aversion to public appearance. After the succes of The Planets he focused on more introvert topics, which resulted among others in his beautiful Hymn of Jesus from 1917. This is typically a work which upon first listening makes you wonder why it's not better known (even though allegedly the work was quite succesful during its own time). There is, however, also something up with the continuity of Holst as a composer, as if technical challenges stimulated him more than creating a consistent style. Grove music Online quoted Holst's daughter Imogen regarding this remarkable phenomenon: 'As soon as he made his point, he stopped'.
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01.
Sonata In C for Oboe and Piano, Op. 100: I. Con moto
05:49
(Edmund Rubbra, Edmund Rubbra) James Turnbull
02.
Sonata In C for Oboe and Piano, Op. 100: II. Elegy
04:15
(Edmund Rubbra, Edmund Rubbra) James Turnbull
03.
Sonata In C for Oboe and Piano, Op. 100: III. Presto
03:30
(Edmund Rubbra, Edmund Rubbra) James Turnbull
04.
Aegeus
08:21
(Edward Longstaff, Edward Longstaff) James Turnbull
05.
Sonatina No. 1
08:49
(Thomas Attwood Walmisley, Thomas Attwood Walmisley) James Turnbull
06.
Amethyst Deceiver for Solo Oboe
07:16
(John Casken) James Turnbull
07.
Terzetto for Flute, Oboe and Viola: I. Allegretto
06:59
(Gustav Holst, Gustav Holst) Matthew Featherstone, Matthew Featherstone
08.
Terzetto for Flute, Oboe and Viola: II. Un poco vivace
04:36
(Gustav Holst) James Turnbull, Dan Shilladay, Dan Shilladay
09.
Three Moods for Unaccompanied Oboe: I. Very free. Moderato
05:24
(Michael Berkeley, Michael Berkeley)
10.
Three Moods for Unaccompanied Oboe: II. Fairly free. Andante
02:33
(Michael Berkeley) James Turnbull
11.
Three Moods for Unaccompanied Oboe: III. Giocoso
02:13
(Michael Berkeley, Michael Berkeley)
12.
Six Studies In English Folksong for Cor Anglais and Piano: I. Adagio
01:37
(Ralph Vaughan Williams, Ralph Vaughan Williams) James Turnbull
13.
Six Studies In English Folksong for Cor Anglais and Piano: II. Andante sostenuto
01:28
(Ralph Vaughan Williams, Ralph Vaughan Williams) James Turnbull
14.
Six Studies In English Folksong for Cor Anglais and Piano: III. Larghetto
01:31
(Ralph Vaughan Williams, Ralph Vaughan Williams) James Turnbull
15.
Six Studies In English Folksong for Cor Anglais and Piano: IV. Lento
01:36
(Ralph Vaughan Williams, Ralph Vaughan Williams) James Turnbull
16.
Six Studies In English Folksong for Cor Anglais and Piano: V. Andante tranquillo
01:33
(Ralph Vaughan Williams, Ralph Vaughan Williams) James Turnbull
17.
Six Studies In English Folksong for Cor Anglais and Piano: VI. Allegro vivace
00:54
(Ralph Vaughan Williams, Ralph Vaughan Williams) James Turnbull
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