2011 Music Reading Reviews!

Oboes on the Ohio 2011

Two Oboes and English horn

Badings, Henk- Trio No. 4a

Difficulty level     3.75
Do you like the piece?    4.13
Comments:  No score
I found it difficult to listen to
Third movement nice

Presser, Theodore- Trio

Difficulty level   2.4
Do you like the piece?  4
Comments:  Nice piece

Wranitzky, Anton/ed. Fritz Kneusslin – Trio in C Major

Difficulty level   3.11
Do you like the piece?  2.56
Comments: No score
Good for young players (i.e. H.S. and college)
Enjoyable to listen to
I enjoyed the melody

Four Oboes and 2 English horns

Rossini, Giocchino/arr. CharlesSayre- Excerpts from La Boutique Fantastique

Difficulty level   3.4
Do you like the piece?  2
Comments:  My favorite! I liked it a lot

Two Bassoons

Boismortier, Joseph Bodin de/ed. Hugo Ruf – Sechs Duette, Op. 40

Difficulty level  2.63
Do you like the piece?  4.88
Comments:  Very nice for young players, good range, keys

Four Bassoons

Hoover, Katherine- Sinfonia

Difficulty level   4.88
Do you like the piece?  2.57
Comments:  Grad students, professional level players

Prokofiew, Serge- Humoristishes Scherzo für View Fagotte, Op. 12 No. 9

Difficulty level   3.11
Do you like the piece?  3.25

Schickele, Peter- Lip My Reeds S. 32’

Inadequate personnel to read this piece

Three Bassoons and Contrabassoon

Dorff, Daniel- Fast Walk

Inadequate personnel to read this piece

Dorff, Daniel- It Takes Four to Tango

Inadequate personnel to read this piece

Two Oboes and Bassoon

Schickele, Peter- Commedia

Difficulty level  2.89
Do you like the piece?  2.39
Comments:  Like finale
Meter changes
Cute, nice dissonace

Three Oboes and Bassoon

Bach, J. S./ed. Sergio Cròzzoli – Quartetto No. 1 (from Brandenburg Concerto # 1)

Difficulty level   3.3
Do you like the piece?  2.56
Comments:   Thin sound

Bach, J. S./ed. Sergio Cròzzoli – Quartetto No. 5 BWV 26

Difficulty level   2.8
Do you like the piece?  2.33
Comments:   Good

Two Oboes, English horn and Bassoon

Bach, J. S./ed. Sergio Cròzzoli – Quartetto No. 2 BWV 148

Difficulty level  2.25
Do you like the piece?  3.29
Comments:  Nice sonority
Very nice

Oboe, Oboe d’amore (Oboe 2), English horn and Bassoon

Bach, J. S./ed. Sergio Cròzzoli – Quartetto No. 3 BWV 1079 (from Musical Offering)

Difficulty level   3.05
Do you like the piece?  3.22
Comments:  Nice

Oboe, Oboe d’amore, English horn and Heckelphone

Castérède, Jacques- Music for the Oboe Family (Air Variè)

Inadequate personnel to read this piece

Two Oboes, English horn, Two Bassoons and Contrabassoon

Lully, J.B./arr. St. Pierre- Marche Versaillaise

Difficulty level   2.2
Do you like the piece?  3.44
Comments:  Nice