Hertel: Oboe Concertos Katarzyna Pilipiuk & Ensemble Il Vento

• Johannes Wilhelm Hertel (1727 - 1789): Oboe Concerto No. 5 in G Minor:
• 1 Hertel: Oboe Concerto No. 5 in G Minor: I. Allegro 09:05
• 2 Hertel: Oboe Concerto No. 5 in G Minor: II. Molto Adagio 05:44
• 3 Hertel: Oboe Concerto No. 5 in G Minor: III. Allegro 06:32
• Oboe Concerto No. 6 in G Major:
• 4 Hertel: Oboe Concerto No. 6 in G Major: I. Allegretto 04:33
• 5 Hertel: Oboe Concerto No. 6 in G Major: II. Largo 03:57
• 6 Hertel: Oboe Concerto No. 6 in G Major: III. Allegro Assai 04:15
• Oboe Concerto No. 2 in E Minor:
• 7 Hertel: Oboe Concerto No. 2 in E Minor: I. Allegretto 03:49
• 8 Hertel: Oboe Concerto No. 2 in E Minor: II. Largo 03:33
• 9 Hertel: Oboe Concerto No. 2 in E Minor: III. Allegro ma non Troppo 04:03
• Oboe Concerto No. 7 in G Minor:
• 10 Hertel: Oboe Concerto No. 7 in G Minor: I. Allegro 06:59
• 11 Hertel: Oboe Concerto No. 7 in G Minor: II. Arioso con Affetto 04:43
• 12 Hertel: Oboe Concerto No. 7 in G Minor: III. Presto 05:38
• Total Runtime 01:02:51

Info for Hertel: Oboe Concertos

Johann Wilhelm Hertel is one of the lesser-known composers of the late baroque and early classical era. Born in Eisenach in 1727, as a young man he travelled to the north of Germany with his father, who was a viola da gamba virtuoso engaged as a Kapellmeister at the court of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Already as a young man Johann Wilhelm showed a remarkable talent for music. He excelled on the harpsichord and violin, but his father wanted him to additionally study law. However, a trip to Berlin and contact with Berlin court musicians Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Franz Benda pushed the young Johann Wilhelm to devote his life primarily to music. In particular he studied the harpsichord with Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, the violin with Franz Benda and composition with Karl Heinrich Graun. He spent his life in the service of the Mecklenburg-Strelitz and -Schwerin courts, and he was also music director in Stralsund. It was during this time that he had many opportunities to meet authorities from both the musical and scientific worlds.

His oboes concertos are exemplary compositions of these times. The autographs, which are preserved in the Library of the Royal Conservatoire of Brussels (Sig. No. B-Bc-5562 and B-Bc-5563), together contain 10 oboe concertos in various keys. Nine of them are collected (and numbered by librarians) in Sig. No. B-Bc-5562 ,and one is separately placed as B-Bc-5563. As there is no catalogue of Hertel’s works, the numbers given for the concertos are taken from the manuscript Sig. No. B-Bc-5562. Some of the pieces are dated 1749 (Concertos Nos. 3 and 9) and others 1756 (Concerto No.2). All the concertos were prepared for this recording by Katarzyna Pilipiuk, copying with a focus on accuracy; only minor mistakes were corrected so as to give the most faithful transmission of the composer’s ideas. The material is very clear, with all the pieces noted by the composer in score form. All of them have signs of stylistic inspiration from the works of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, in particular Concerto No.5, which is an excellent work in the Empfindsamer Stil.

Katarzyna Pilipiuk, baroque oboe Ensemble Il Vento

Katarzyna Pilipiuk
Studied historical oboe first under Marek Niewiedział, then under Frank de Bruine. Subsequently she developed her skills through postgraduate studies with prof. Alfredo Bernardini at Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg. During her studies she attended numerous masterclasses leaded by: Alfredo Bernardini (at Urbino Musica Antica, Accademia Villa Bossi, Amsterdam Early Music Summer School, Akademie für Alte Musik Bruneck), Elisabeth Baumer, Magdalena Karolak, Molly Marsch, Josep Domenech and Paolo Grazzi. Katarzyna performs 18th and 19th century music on the copies of the historical instruments (baroque oboe, French oboe in 392 Hz., oboe d’amore, oboe da caccia, English horn, classical and romantic oboe). She cooperates frequently with early music ensembles, such as Polska Orkiestra XVIII Wieku, Famd.pl Orchestra, Il Tempo, Diletto, Risonanza, Goldberg Baroque Ensemble, Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, La Divina Armonia. She is a member of chamber music groups Il Vento, Osteria Barocca and Antica Cucina. Beside her concert activity she devotes to research concerning the history of oboe and a forgotten repertoire of the 18th century composers.

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