Below is a selection of different pieces of music which are prominent in the oboe repertoire. Included with each section is a Spotify playlist. (please note this will only work if you have Spotify loaded on your computer).
Oboe Concertos (music for solo oboe and orchestra):
- Tomaso Albinoni – Oboe Concerto (there are many but one of the most popular is Op 9 No. 2)
- JS Bach – Concerto for Oboe and Violin
- Alessandro Marcello – Oboe Concerto
- Bohuslav Martinu – Oboe Concerto
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Oboe Concerto
- Richard Strauss – Oboe Concerto
- Vaughan Williams Oboe Concerto
Solo Oboe (and Piano) repertoire:
- JS Bach – Sonata in G Minor BWV 1020
- Luciano Berio – Sequenza VIIa for solo oboe and tape
- York Bowen – Oboe Sonata
- Benjamin Britten – Six Metamorphoses after Ovid
- Antal Dorati – Five PIeces for Solo Oboe
- Henri Dutilleux – Oboe Sonata
- Carl Nielsen – Two Fantasy Pieces
- Francis Poulenc – Oboe Sonata
- Edmund Rubbra – Oboe Sonata
- Camille Saint-Säens – Oboe Sonata
Oboe Solos in Orchestral repertoire:
- JS Bach – ‘Ich habe genug’ from Cantata No. 82
- Johannes Brahms – Violin Concerto (2nd movement)
- Antonin Dvorak – New World Symphony (famous Cor Anglais solo)
- Sergei Prokofiev – Peter and the Wolf
- Maurice Ravel – Le Tombeau de Couperin
- Richard Strauss – Don Juan Overture (approx 6:40 into the piece)
- Igor Stravinsky – Pulcinella Suite
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Swan Lake