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An oboe quintet is a chamber music group of five individuals led by an oboist, or music written for this ensemble.
Usually an oboe quintet consists of an oboe and string quartet. Pieces for five oboes or five members of the oboe family are uncommon (only two are listed below): double reed quintets are not only rare but almost always include a bassoon.
Of the 105 listed quintets, 35 were composed between 1770 and 1825, none in the next 65 years, 3 between 1880 and 1920, 27 between 1920 and 1980, and 40 since.
The most performed and recorded oboe quintets are probably those by Arnold Bax and Arthur Bliss, who both dedicated their pieces to the British oboist Léon Goossens.
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Quintets for oboe and string quartet
These pieces are for oboe, two violins, viola, and cello unless otherwise indicated.
Composer Title Year[1] Length (min.) Publisher Record label Bernardo Adam-Ferrero Homenaje a García Lorca for ob & str qt 2005 8' NCA Kalevi Aho Quintet for oboe & strings 1973 29' BIS; Finlandia Richard Arnell Oboe Quintet 1944 24' Jan Bach Quintet for ob & str 1958 18' Meadow Music Sérgio Azevedo Oboe Quintet 2004 AVA Robert Baksa Quintet for ob & str qt 1972 18' Carl Fischer; Presser Capstone Virko Baley Orpheus Singing 1994 11' Cambria; Musicians Showcase Christian Frederik Barth Divertissement in G major for ob & str qt 1820 MusicaStorica Arnold Bax Oboe Quintet[2] 1922 17' Boosey & Hawkes Recorded by 9+ labels Howard Blake Oboe Quintet, Op. 131 1971 13' Highbridge Music Arthur Bliss Quintet for ob & str, Op. 44, F. 21 1927 20' OUP; Masters Music Recorded by 8+ labels Luigi Boccherini 6 Oboe Quintets, Op. 45, G. 431-6 [3] 1797 9 to 11' Sikorski; Peters Capriccio; MHS William Bolcom Serenata Notturna 2005 21' Presser Rutland Boughton Two Pieces for ob & str [4] 1937 8' Hyperion Frits Celis Quintetto, Op. 57 [5] 1995 21' Phaedra Friedrich Cerha Quintet for ob & str qt [2] 2007 17' Brian Cherney In the Stillness of the Summer Wind 1987 James Clarke Oboe Quintet 1992 9' Metier; Composers’ Art John Cooney Taking Liberties [6] 1990 12' BMIC John Corigliano Aria for ob & str qt [7] 1985 6' G. Schirmer Albany Lewis Cornwell Retrospection 1981 6' AMC Donald Crocket Celestial Mechanics [8] 1990 17' CRI Gordon Crosse Oboe Quintet 1988 15' Bernhard Henrik Crusell Divertimento in C major, Op. 9 1822 10' Sikorski; Peters Hyperion, Naxos Caspar Diethelm Bucolicon, Op. 202 [9] 1982 Antal Dorati Notturno and Capriccio 1926 13' Dux; MD&G Records Georg Druschetzky Oboe Quintet in C major 1810 13' Ambroisie Dorothy Dushkin Quintet for Amanda 1956 New Valley Gerald Finzi Interlude for ob & str qt, Op. 21 1936 11' Boosey & Hawkes Boston; Carlton; Chandos
Conifer; HyperionChristopher Fox Oboe Quintet 1995 15' BMIC Metier Joseph Francois Garnier Oboe Quintet 1800 7' Koch Schwann Dorothy Gow Oboe Quintet in 1 movement 1936 14' Oboe Classics Stephen Gryc Fantasy Variations on a Theme of Bela Bartok [10] 1992 11' Opus One Daron Hagen Oboe Quintet 2000 17' Burning Sled Matthew Hindson Rush : for ob & str qt 2001 9' Faber Gustav Holst Air and Variations for ob & str qt
Three pieces for ob & str qt Op. 21896 3'
13'Chandos John-Paul Christopher Jackson Passacaglia for ob & str qt 1993 6' Gordon Jacob Concerto for ob & str qt [11] 1933 23' Stainer & Bell Bernhard Kaun Quintet for ob & str 1940 Leeds Charles Koechlin 6 Pieces, Op. 179 [12] 1942 Eschig Rodolphe Kreutzer Grand Quintet in C major 1800 15' Boosey & Hawkes Hyperion; Koch Franz Krommer Oboe Quintet P VII:12 in C major
Oboe Quintet P VII:13 in E flat major1790 24'
27'Naxos Rolands Kronlaks Conversion 2000 7' Henri Lazarof Quintet for ob & str qt 1997 15' Presser John Anthony Lennon Myth of Aeolia 2008 10' ACA Elisabeth Lutyens The Fall of the Leafe 1966 Olivan Andrew Paul MacDonald Pythikos nomos, Op. 39[13] 1996 23' Centrediscs Elizabeth Maconchy Oboe Quintet [14] 1932 12' Chester Music Oboe Classics; Dutton Vocalion David Matthews The Flaying of Marsyas, Op. 42 1987 19' Faber Metronome Robert McBride Quintet for ob & str 1948 5' G. Schirmer; ACA Darius Milhaud Les Rêves de Jacob, Op. 294 [3] [15] 1948 17' Heugel CPO Richard Mills Songs without Words 1998 AMC Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Oboe Quintet in C minor, K. 406 [16] 1789 24' IMC Naxos; Capriccio; Caro Mitis; Amon Ra Gottfried Müller Quintet for ob & str qt 1950 19' Küffner & Drechsler Cavalli Vazgen Muradian Concerto for ob & str qt, Op. 25 1962 25' Crystal Josef Mysliveček 6 Quintets for ob & str qt [17] 1770 [18] Sigismund Neukomm Quintet for ob & str qt, Op. 8 in B-flat[19] 1809 26' Pan Classics Páll Pálsson September Sonnet 1991 9' Icelandic Music Gabriel Pierné Piece in G minor for ob & str qt, Op. 5 [20] 1883 3' Masters Music Ignace Joseph Pleyel 3 Quintets, B.280-282 1788 J.A.Offenbach Quincy Porter Oboe Quintet (Elegiac) [21] 1966 19' Highgate Press CRI (CRL235) David L. Post Aria for ob & str qt 1994 6' F.E. Warren Roger Redgate Oboe Quintet 2003 6' Metier Anton Reicha Oboe Quintet in F major, Op. 107 1825 26' Musica Rara Hyperion; MDG; Pan Tim Risher Words and Deeds 1993 Aulis Sallinen Echoes from a Play, Op. 66 1990 15' Novello Gerhard Samuel Two Moods for ob & str qt 1997 LKM Peter Seabourne Soaring [22] 2007 17' John Shaffer Smith Quintet for ob & str qt 1951 Carl Fischer Margaret Sutherland Serenade 1953 AMC Tore Takemitsu Entre-temps for ob & str qt 1986 12' Schott Telarc Joan Tower Island Prelude 1989 10' G. Schirmer Naxos Antonín Tučapský Oboe Quintet 1997 Mark-Anthony Turnage Cantilena 2001 11' Onyx Classics Robert Ward Quintet for ob & str qt 2005 19' Albany Donald Wheelock Ten bagatelles 1972 9' King's Crown Albany John Woolrich Oboe Quintet 1998 20' Faber Anton Wranitzky Quintet in G minor [15] 1800 Paul Wranitzky 6 Quintets for ob & str, Op. 1 1789 André [4] Other settings
Composer Title Year Length (min.) Publisher Record label Jos van Amelsvoort Quintetto I[23] 1994 10' Donemus Rob du Bois Chansons pour appâter les chéiroptères [24] 1975 8' Donemus Théodore Dubois Oboe Quintet in F major [25]) 1905 28' Silvertrust ATMA Classique Anton Eberl Quintuor Brillant in C, Op. 48[25][26] 1790 23' CPO David Froom Quintet for Oboe, Strings and Piano 1991 17' Arabesque Peter Golub Quintet for Oboe, String Trio and Piano 2010 Franz Anton Hoffmeister 6 Notturnos (Quintets) [27] 1780 14' to 22' Tudor Records Sergey Prokofiev Oboe Quintet in G minor, Op. 39 [28] 1923 20' Delos; Capriccio; Cambria Johann Samuel Schroeter Quintet 1 in C [29] 1780 See also
Notes
- ^ Years in italics are estimates, which may be off by more than a decade.
- ^ Bax oboe quintet program notes
- ^ #1-5 in G, F, D, A, and E-flat major, and # 6 in D minor.
- ^ Entitled 'Somerset Pastoral' and 'The Passing of the Faery'
- ^ The oboist also plays the English horn
- ^ Winner of the RPS Composition Prize 1991. Revised in 1999
- ^ Composer's own adaptation from the 4th movement of his 1975 Oboe concerto
- ^ Commissioned by the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
- ^ Alternatively for oboe, horn, violin, viola and cello
- ^ Later arranged for oboe and string orchestra
- ^ In 1935 arranged for oboe and string orchestra as his "Oboe concerto No 1
- ^ Transcribed by the oboist Lajos Lencses. Originally 14 pieces for oboe and piano
- ^ The oboist also plays the English horn and oboe d'amore
- ^ Receive the Daily Telegraph chamber music prize in 1933
- ^ a b For oboe, violin, viola, cello, and double bass.
- ^ For oboe, violin, two violas, and cello. This is a transcription (a.o. by the oboist Humbert Lucarelli) of Mozart's String Quintet No. 2, which was the composer's own arrangement of his earlier Serenade No. 12 for Winds
- ^ In B-flat, D, F, C, Ar, and E-flat major.
- ^ There is one undated manuscript in the Biblioteca Comunale in Treviso
- ^ Written to be played by either oboe or clarinet.
- ^ Composer's arrangement; originally for oboe and piano
- ^ Porter's last major work; written for the oboist Robert Bloom
- ^ Originally for oboe and piano, in 2003 transcribed for oboe and piano quintet; piano dropped in 2007
- ^ For 2 oboes, oboe d'amore, English horn, and heckelphone
- ^ For oboe, 2 oboe d'amores, and 2 English horns
- ^ a b For oboe, violin, viola, cello, and piano.
- ^ Published posthumously in 1808, but thought to be an early work [1]
- ^ For oboe, violin, two violas, and horn or bassoon.
- ^ For oboe, clarinet, violin, viola and double bass
- ^ For oboe, violin, viola, cello, and clavichord
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