The outpouring of Stefan Wolpe recordings fostered by the Stefan Wolpe Society continues apace with Bridge Records' Stefan Wolpe, Vol. 4. This disc is devoted to solo wind instrument works, with the oboe playing a very prominent role -- Wolpe's close friend and publisher was oboist Josef Marx, whose small, specialist publishing concern McGinnis and Marx was at one time both a boon to wind players the world around and part of the lifeblood of Wolpe's own support system. Four of the five works here were the direct result of ...
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The outpouring of Stefan Wolpe recordings fostered by the Stefan Wolpe Society continues apace with Bridge Records' Stefan Wolpe, Vol. 4. This disc is devoted to solo wind instrument works, with the oboe playing a very prominent role -- Wolpe's close friend and publisher was oboist Josef Marx, whose small, specialist publishing concern McGinnis and Marx was at one time both a boon to wind players the world around and part of the lifeblood of Wolpe's own support system. Four of the five works here were the direct result of Wolpe's long association with Marx (not to be confused with Swiss composer Joseph Marx), and the oboe pieces here are played by no less than the artist widely regarded as the greatest oboe player in the world, Heinz Holliger. These recordings are not old leftovers from the LP era, but most are brand new: Radio Bremen recorded the Oboe Sonata Fragment (1937) and the Piece for Oboe, Cello, Percussion and Piano (1955) in late 2005 and the Song, Speech, Hymn, Strophe...Tenderest Motion...
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