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Aho: Oboe Concerto - van Bockstal, Brabbins

Aho: Oboe Concerto - van Bockstal, Brabbins

BIS  BIS-1876 SACD

Stereo/Multichannel Hybrid

Classical - Orchestral


AHO, Kalevi (b. 1949)
Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra (2007) (Fennica Gehrman Oy)
Solo IX for oboe (2010) (Fennica Gehrman Oy)
Sonata for Oboe and Piano (1984–85) (Novello)

Piet van Bockstal (oboe)
Lahti Symphony Orchestra (Sinfonia Lahti)
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
Yutaka Oya (piano)
Oboe Concerto recorded in the presence of the composer


For those who have followed the career of Kalevi Aho (for instance through the more than 20 discs of his music released on BIS), it will be clear that he enjoys large-scale projects.

One such project has been his ‘oboe project’, composing works in every genre for the instrument. These plans can be said to have begun soon after the Sonata for oboe and piano included here, composed in 1984–85 and thus possibly the first such work for this combination by a Finnish composer.


The project received fresh impetus in 2002, when Aho encountered the eminent Belgian oboist Piet Van Bockstal. As a result he composed his Oboe Concerto, premièred by Bockstal in 2008, a work in which Aho wanted to explore fresh directions for tonality as well as creating orchestral music with a more powerful rhythmic pulse and a richer sound-world.

As a result the Concerto employs scales from Arabic classical music as a melodic basis in some of its five movements, and also features the Arabic darabuka and African djembe (two types of goblet drum). Although there is no oboe included in the orchestral score, Aho also specifies the use of two of its rarely heard relatives: the oboe d’amore and the heckelphone (a baritone oboe). Three years after the Concerto, the composer returned to his oboe project, and completed it by writing a solo piece for the instrument.

Dedicated to Piet Van Bockstal, the 10-minute Solo IX also forms part of another of Aho’s projects – a series of large-scale, virtuosic solo works for various instruments. Together with a number of chamber works for different constellations, this disc sums up Kalevi Aho’s oboe project, in expert performances by Piet Van Bockstal, supported by the pianist Yutaka Oya, and by Martyn Brabbins conducting the Lahti Symphony Orchestra, for which Aho has composed so much of his music.

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Recorded in September 2010 at the Sibelius Hall, Lahti, Finland (Concerto), 24/44.1 & in September 2010 at the Potton Hall, Saxmundham, Suffolk, England (Sonata, Solo IX), 24/88.2

Producers: Jens Braun (Take5 Music Production) (Concerto); Marion Schwebel (Take5 Music Production) (Sonata, Solo IX)

Sound engineers: Thore Brinkmann (Take5 Music Production) (Concerto); Marion Schwebel (Sonata, Solo IX)

Equipment: Neumann microphones; RME Micstasy microphone preamplifier and high-resolution A/D converter; MADI optical cabling; Yamaha 02R96 digital mixer; Sequoia Workstation; Pyramix DSD Workstation; B&W Nautilus 802 loudspeakers; STAX headphones (Concerto)
Neumann microphones, RME Octamic D microphone preamplifier and high-resolution A/D converter; Sequoia Workstation; Pyramix DSD Workstation; B&W Nautilus 802 loudspeakers; Sennheiser headphones (Sonata, Solo IX)

Post-production: Editing: Bastian Schick (Concerto); Elisabeth Kemper (Sonata, Solo IX)
Mixing: Jens Braun, Marion Schwebel

Executive producer: Robert Suff