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There are other links throughout this site, attached to particular, appropriate, pages.
- Oboist Emily Pailthorpe (who features on the Though Lovers be Lost and Oboe Divas! CDs) shows another side to her talents, a byproduct of her oboe travels: uniquegiftsfromemily.com. What's more, type OBOE as the discount code and you'll get a 10% price reduction, for the rest of 2010.
- "The chief objection to a wind instrument is that it extends the life of the player." If provocative remarks like this one from George Bernard Shaw entertain you, try this collection of amusing, thought-provoking and poignant musical quotes compiled by David Barker for MusicWeb International, a UK-based web resource for classical music (which has given lots of Oboe Classics CDs rave reviews, and deserves support).
- How many 19th Century oboists can you name? James (Jimmy) Brown has written biographies of more than 1650, including their solo repertoire. For more details, email jimmybrown001@btinternet.com. There is also more information at the bottom of The Oboe 1903-1953 details page.
- Are you an oboe player or teacher looking for work? Or someone looking for a player or teacher? There is an international listing at OboeProfiles.com.
- The publisher of the Dorothy Gow Quintet, featured on An English Renaissance, is
Stephen Powell Music Services.
He does typesetting and copying, and also set the Britten Metamorphoses Sketches. - Has Quicktime taken over your PC? The page on hearing the sound now has a tip on how to restore the Media Player.
- US composer/arranger Robert Elkjer has written some entertaining jazz-style duets
for oboe and english horn.
His sound clips are electronic, but generous and fun. This will take you to the relevant page of his web site. - Intimate Voices; a (printable) PDF version of an article about running The Sheba Sound.
- Wagner and the Wind Quintet; a (printable) PDF version of an article about one of the tracks on the Oboe Divas! CD
- Fredric T Cohen has passed on this link to the Houston Texans; play the movie clip called SUPER AD: FINAL CUT, and discover the connection between Bach's second Brandenburg concerto and American Football.
- Nicholas Daniel performs Britten's Metamorphoses on YouTube. This link will take you to Bacchus, but all six movements are there. This performance is featured (in HiFi) on the Britten CD.
- An article by Christopher Redgate on listening to extreme oboe music. There is also a German version.
- The Best Laid Plans - an article by Althea Ifeka on planning her CD From Leipzig to London, leading up to the first day of recording on July 7th 2005 - a date when others had a different agenda for London.
- The Oboist as the custodian of orchestral pitch, article by Geoffrey Burgess (this is a page from the 'More Details' section of The Oboe 1903-53).
- Working with Janet Craxton by Brian Hawkins. (This is a page from the 'More Details' section of Janet Craxton)
- How some professional oboists first got started. (This is a page from the 'More Details' section of Ready Steady Blow!)
- Howarth of London, the maker of the oboe pictured in these pages
- Feedback from people who have bought these CDs
- What is a cor anglais? - or english horn - the web site of Geoffrey Browne
- Doris realised too late where she'd left her oboe
- The British Double Reed Society which has lots of information, and links to other UK music organisations.
- Haydn looks after his oboists
- The home page of Matt Fossa - oboist (Pensacola Symphony) and enthusiast
- - and an oboist in Hungary, Imre Bojtár, who sells CDs on his site
- The Society for the Promotion of New Music (SPNM) - for lovers of contemporary music
- 'The Enraged Musician'
- The Polmear Ambache Duo - Jeremy Polmear's Duo site with pianist Diana Ambache
- FOR OBOE MUSIC, June Emerson Wind Music is probably the best wind music supplier in the world!
- - for a more specialist site, try www.egge-verlag.de. It's in German, but is understandable to an English speaker. Go to the 'shop' page for huge lists of oboe music.
- FOR AURAL TESTS (hearing beats in a bar, rhythms, singing notes etc) try www.hofnote.co.uk.
- If you are a cellist, thanks for being here, and for a cello CD try our sister label Cello Classics
- - and for a clarinet CD, try the label that started it all, Clarinet Classics
- Zen and the Art of Oboe Playing - some wise words from Maurice Bourgue
- - and just as important as what goes on in the mind is what goes on in the body; check out www.oboemotions.com, the wide-ranging website of Las Vegas oboist Stephen Caplan.
- Jazz players are not known for their longevity, but the celebrated US saxophonist Johnny Griffin was still playing up until his death in 2008, aged 80. His long life may have been due in part to his learning the oboe at school. He was drafted into the army in 1951, and was about to be sent to fight in Korea when an oboe vacancy came up for a (US-based) military band. Griffin took the job; many of his friends were subsequently killed in Korea.
- The Classical Recording Company handles some of our recordings and mastering, and they also have their own CD catalogue, including English oboe music (John Gardner, Paul Patterson, Andrew Downes and John Mayer) played by George Caird.
- Some Travel Diaries of Jeremy Polmear and Diana Ambache
- And finally... Correct Positioning of the Oboe - an Expert Guide