Madeleine Dring: Complete Works for Oboe Nicholas Daniel, Antonio Oyarzabal, Adam Walker, Amy Harman

• Madeleine Dring (1923 – 1977): Tango:
• 1 Dring: Tango 03:06
• Waltz:
• 2 Dring: Waltz 03:23
• Italian Dance:
• 3 Dring: Italian Dance 02:10
• Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Keyboard:
• 4 Dring: Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Keyboard: I. Drammatico 05:40
• 5 Dring: Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Keyboard: II. Dialogues. Andante sostenuto 06:48
• 6 Dring: Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Keyboard: III. Allegro con brio 05:26
• Danza Gaya:
• 7 Dring: Danza Gaya 02:35
• In the Still of the Night:
• 8 Dring: In the Still of the Night 05:04
• My Heart is Like a Singing Bird:
• 9 Dring: My Heart is Like a Singing Bird 01:58
• Three Piece Suite:
• 10 Dring: Three Piece Suite: I. Showpiece 03:29
• 11 Dring: Three Piece Suite: II. Romance 06:01
• 12 Dring: Three Piece Suite: III. Finale 03:30
• Trio for Flute, Oboe and Piano:
• 13 Dring: Trio for Flute, Oboe and Piano: I. Allegro con brio 03:00
• 14 Dring: Trio for Flute, Oboe and Piano: II. Andante semplice 05:08
• 15 Dring: Trio for Flute, Oboe and Piano: III. Allegro giocoso 02:54
• Idyll:
• 16 Dring: Idyll 06:32
• Sarabande:
• 17 Dring: Sarabande 03:32
• Polka:
• 18 Dring: Polka 02:18
• Total Runtime 01:12:34

Info for Madeleine Dring: Complete Works for Oboe

Madeline Dring wurde in eine musikalische und theater-affine Familie hineingeboren und erhielt im Alter von neun Jahren ein Stipendium für die Jugendabteilung des Royal College of Music. Ihr Schwerpunkt verlagerte sich von der Geige auf das Klavier und die Komposition, die sie bei Herbert Howells, Gordon Jacob und Ralph Vaughan Williams studierte. Ihre Begeisterung für das Theater eröffnete ihr eine Karriere als Komponistin von Musik und Liedern für Revuen und Sketch-Shows im Theater, Radio und Fernsehen: Sie hatte eine Begabung und einen Witz, den einige Zeitgenossen mit George Gershwin verglichen. Es liegt vielleicht an der Art ihrer Arbeit (Auftragswerke und aufführungsspezifische Kompositionen), dass ein Großteil ihres Schaffens verloren gegangen ist. Dring war mit Roger Lord verheiratet, dem langjährigen Solo-Oboisten des London Symphony Orchestra, für den sie eine Reihe von Werken und Arrangements schrieb, die hier gesammelt wurden. Nicholas Daniel ist seit langem als einer der größten Oboisten der Welt anerkannt, er ist Ordensträger des OBE und einer der bekanntesten Musiker Großbritanniens. Er hat das Repertoire für sein Instrument durch die Vergabe von Hunderten von neuen Werken erheblich erweitert.

Nicholas Daniel, Oboe
Adam Walker, Flöte
Amy Harman, Fagott
Antonio Oyarzabal, Klavier

strong> Nicholas Daniel
OBE has long been acknowledged as one of the world’s great oboists and is one of Britain’s best-known musicians. He has significantly enlarged the repertoire for his instrument with the commissioning of hundreds of new works. He has also developed a varied and exciting conducting career alongside his playing, and both these aspects of his work are equally important to him.

Nicholas dedicates his life to music in many varied ways. He records and broadcasts widely, he recently signed an exclusive contract with Chandos Records, and he boasts a huge following internationally on social media and on Streaming Apps such as Spotify and Apple Music. He is proud to support and patronise many important initiatives, charities and trusts, and has directed several music festivals and concert series, most notably in Germany and at Dartington, and has been Music Director of the Leicester International Music Festival and lunchtime series for many years. He is highly sought after as a teacher, having been Professor at the Trossingen Musikhochschule in Germany for more than 20 years.

As a conductor he made his BBC Proms conducting debut in 2004, and he works with many fine ensembles in hugely wide-ranging repertoire from Baroque to contemporary, from smaller groups to opera. In recognition of his achievements, he was honoured in 2012 by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II with the prestigious Queen’s Medal for Music and cited as having made “an outstanding contribution to the musical life of the nation”. In October 2020 he was awarded an OBE and in 2022 was awarded the Cobbett Medal for Chamber Music by the Musicians’ Company.

Having sung as in the choir of Salisbury Cathedral as a boy, Nicholas was put directly into the spotlight at the age of 18 when he won the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition. After a short period of study at London’s Royal Academy of Music, with Janet Craxton and Celia Nicklin and then privately with clarinettist Anthony Pay and with Hans Keller, he quickly established his career with early debuts at the BBC Proms and on disc.

He has been a concerto soloist with many of the world’s leading orchestras and conductors, performing a huge range of repertoire from Bach to Xenakis and beyond, premiering works written for him by hundreds of composers including Eleanor Alberga, Harrison Birtwistle, Henri Dutilleux, James MacMillan, Thea Musgrave, Outi Tarkiainen, John Tavener and Michael Tippett, as well as encouraging many younger composers to write for the oboe. His recording of concertos by Vaughan Williams and MacMillan was awarded the BBC Music Magazine Premiere Award in 2016, and the Vaughan Williams chosen as the best recording of the work in Gramophone in June 2023. He recently premiered and recorded a new Cor Anglais concerto, Milky Ways, by Outi Tarkianien.

As chamber musician Nicholas is a founder member of the award-winning Britten Sinfonia, the Haffner Wind Ensemble, Orsino, and the Britten Oboe Quartet, whose debut disc was released to great acclaim on the Harmonia Mundi label. He also works regularly with the pianists Huw Watkins and Julius Drake, and with many leading string quartets including the Carducci, Doric and Vogler. He is principal oboist of Camerata Pacifica, California’s leading chamber music ensemble, and is a popular guest at music festivals all over the world.

Nicholas Daniel plays F. Lorée Étoile Oboes and Royal English Horns, made by Alain de Gourdon, in Paris.

strong> Adam Walker
was supported by BBT between 2010 and 2014. For an up-to-date biography go to maestroarts.com.

In 2009, at the age of 21, Adam Walker was appointed principal flute of the London Symphony Orchestra and received the ‘Outstanding Young Artist Award’ at the MIDEM Classique Awards in Cannes. He went on to win a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship Award and was shortlisted for the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Outstanding Young Artist Award. As a soloist Adam has appeared with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Solistes Européens, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, the Hallé, Royal Philharmonic, Northern Sinfonia, Bournemouth Symphony and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestras at venues including the Barbican, Konzerthaus Vienna, Philharmonie Luxembourg and Bridgewater Hall.

In 2011 he gave the world premiere of Brett Dean’s Concerto The Siduri Dances with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and in 2013 returns to perform the Otaka Concerto and Bernstein’s Halil. Engagements during 2013/14 include the premiere of a concerto by Kevin Puts at the Cabrillo Festival, and the premiere of a Flute Concerto by Huw Watkins with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Daniel Harding at the Barbican.

In 2013 he returned to Wigmore Hall with pianist James Baillieu and guitarist Morgan Szymanski and released his first CD entitled Vocalise on the Opus Arte label. Previous concert appearances include LSO St. Lukes (broadcast by BBC Radio 3), City of London Festival, Varese (Italy) and Festspiele Mecklenburg Vorpommern. He has collaborated with pianist Angela Hewitt, singer Bernarda Fink and composer George Benjamin at Wigmore Hall and continues to appear as guest principal with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Adam Walker was a YCAT artist between 2007-2013.

Adam Walker recorded his BBT-commissioned Huw Watkins Flute Concerto for NMC, released in 2018. He also participated in BBT’s 20th-anniversary celebrations at London’s Wigmore Hall, June 2023.

I was completely thrilled and honoured to be given a BBT Fellowship in 2010. To receive this kind of support is very special. It came at such a perfect time when I had just graduated and started as principal flute of the LSO and has made possible projects that I had only dreamed about before. To have the wealth of experience BBT brings is a privilege and I am very excited about the process of commissioning a concerto and recording.

strong> Amy Harman
A passionate advocate for the bassoon, Amy Harman is much sought after as a soloist, chamber musician, teacher and communicator.

Amy was a professor at the Royal Academy of Music from 2013 to 2024 and gives masterclasses and coaches internationally. She was appointed professor of bassoon at the Robert Schumann Hochshule Düsseldorf in 2024, the first woman to hold such a position in Germany.

Aged 23 Amy was appointed solo bassoon of the Philharmonia Orchestra. Sought after as guest principal with leading orchestras in Europe including Paavo Järvi’s EFO and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, she is currently principal of Aurora Orchestra. She was selected by YCAT in 2014.

Solo highlights include premiering Roxanna Panufnik’s concerto for bassoon & string orchestra with the Royal Northern Sinfonia, Strauss's Concertino with the English Chamber Orchestra, Mozart’s Concerto at the Festival Suoni dal Golfo in Lerici and appearing as a flying soloist at the world premiere of Stockhausen’s Mittwoch aus Licht. Amy was the first bassoonist to perform a live broadcast solo recital for BBC radio 3. She performs recitals regularly in UK and Germany with her collaborator Tom Poster. She has taken part in festivals internationally including Pärnu, Spoleto USA, Aldeburgh, Tbilisi, West Cork, Ryedale, Bath mozartfest and Mizmorim festivals and regularly attends IMS Prussia Cove.

Amy has had works written for her by Olav Berg, Heloïse Werner, Brian Elias, Roxanna Panufnik, Robin Holloway and Simon Holt.

Chamber music is at the heart of Amy’s performing life. She was a member of Ensemble 360 for 10 years and appears regularly with the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, Wigmore Halls’ artists in association from 2020. She is a member of the Orisino Wind Quintet founded by Adam Walker and records for Chandos.

strong> Antonio Oyarzabal
is a concert pianist living in London. He obtained his Masters and Artist Diploma at the Guildhall School, studying with Caroline Palmer. His recent debuts include Wigmore Hall, Royal Albert Hall, Conway Hall and Cadogan Hall (London); and as a soloist with Bilbao Symphony Orchestra and conductor Juanjo Mena.

Antonio performs solo and chamber recitals actively around the UK and abroad. Recent performances include a Madeleine Dring Centenary chamber concert curated with oboist Nicholas Daniel OBE (which they have recorded for Chandos Records), and solo recitals in festivals and concert halls in the US, France, Ireland, UK, Spain, Austria etc.

He has published five albums. La Muse Oubliée, a collection of piano works by women composers, was awarded with a Golden Melomano, rated 5 star from BBC Music Magazine, appeared in The Observer, and received glowing reviews from many European magazines. It was selected as 1 of the 5 best piano albums of 2021 by Fanfare Magazine (US). Released in 2023, El Fin del Silencio (Latin American women composers) was Critic’s Choice on BBC Music Magazine. He has just released his 5th album, La Muse Oubliée II, which has also been awarded with a Golden Melomano.

Because of Antonio’s work in the field of women composers, he was named Ambassador for Donne UK, the leading institution for women in music.

Antonio will have his solo debut with the National Orchestra of Spain in November 2024.

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