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Since 1948, Howarth of London have been a world-renowned oboe-maker and long-standing seller of woodwind instruments and sheet music.
Manufacturers of Oboes since 1948.
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About Howarth
Howarth of London is a specialist woodwind instrument maker and retailer. Known all over the world as makers of the finest oboes, oboes d’amore and cors anglais, our instruments are made in our dedicated manufacturing workshops in Worthing, West Sussex.
We use high-tech CNC machinery to make precision components for our instruments which are then hand-assembled by highly experienced technicians into our beautiful instruments.
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Programme
Lieben Sie Wien…?
Vienna Clarinet Connection
Helmut Hödl, Clarinet
Rupert Fankhauser, Clarinet
Wolfgang Kornberger, Bass Clarinet
Hubert Salmhofer, Bass Clarinet
Vienna-born actor Wolf Bachofner is the ideal choice when it comes to serving up Viennese coffeehouse literature around Karl Kraus or dialect poetry such as “Weana Schbrüch” by Ernst Kein. Bachofner became known to a wider audience in the 1990s alongside Tobias Moretti and Karl Markovics in the TV series “Inspector Rex”. He currently stars in the series “Schnell ermittelt.”
On the stage of the Musikverein, Wolf Bachofner will perform with the VIENNA CLARINET CONNECTION, four “real Viennese” from Tyrol, Burgenland, and Styria. With a seemingly inexhaustible palette of colours, they celebrate a symbiosis of classical and jazz, pop and contemporary music. With respect and attention to detail, the pieces are taken apart and reassembled. It’s not unusual for a melody from Franz Lehár’s “The Merry Widow” to gently glide into “Someday My Prince Will Come” by Dave Brubeck, who, incidentally, loved Vienna. The VIENNA CLARINET CONNECTION serves up a Viennese Melange in swaying three-quarter time and strolls through the city with Wolf Bachofner…
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Oboe Quartets – Spanish Roots
27/04/2025 12:00 pm
Espacio Turina: Sala Silvio Calle Laraña, 4, Seville, Andalusia, 41003, Spain
Oboe Quartets – Spanish Roots
April 27th 2025 at 12:00 – 13:00
Cuarteto Emispherio
Oboe | Sarah Roper
Violin | Vladimir Dmitrienco
Viola | Jerome Ireland
Cello | Gretchen Talbot
This chamber concert offers an interesting overview of the works that several Spanish composers (except for María Eugenia Luc, born in the 1960s and closely associated with the Basque Country) have dedicated to this infrequent ensemble in recent years, and who are now at the peak of their creative maturity. It’s a great opportunity to hear live pieces that are only available on specialised record labels.
With Ferrer Ferrán (Valencia, 1966), author of extensive works for orchestra and band, we explore Egyptian mythology in Horus (2007), the celestial god and healer. This is followed by Paisajes mecánicas (Mechanical Landscapes), by Sánchez Verdú (Algeciras, 1968), written in 1994 and premiered in Tangier the following year.
The program fulfills its commitment to promoting contemporary music by presenting the premiere of Quartet No. 2 by Sancho Velázquez (Alcalá del Río, 1962), a violinist with the ROSS. A self-taught musician, he began composing in 1993.
From María Eugenia Luc (Rosario, 1958), who is interested in the world of fractals, we will hear a 2015 work written for the Irauli quartet, Luma galdu bat bezala (“Like a Lost Feather”), which is the title of a poem by Joseba Sarrionandi.
From the extensive catalogue of Jesús Torres (Zaragoza, 1965), a composer deeply invested in Spanish poetry, we offer his 2009 Oboe Quartet.
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Glosas del arte – Manuel Martínez and Pascual-Vilaplana
27/04/2025 11:00 am
L'Auditori, Carrer de Lepant, 150, L'Eixample, 08013 Barcelona, Spain
Glosas del arte – Manuel Martínez and Pascual-Vilaplana
April 27th 2025 at 11:00 – 12:30
Programme
Banda Sinfónica Portuguesa
Joäo Malha (1991): Apoteose (2018) 11’
Luís Carvalho: Gentio sao os olhos negros… (Gentiles son tus ojos negros…). Glosas sobre un tema tradicional de las Azores (2016) 11’
Banda Municipal de Barcelona
José Maria Sánchez-Verdú: Memoria de la isla verde para clarinete y banda sinfónica (2024) 10′ – Obra encargo de Manuel Martínez y la BMB. Estreno absoluto
Amando Blanquer: Gloses II (1989) 16’
Banda Simfònica Portuguesa y Banda Municipal de Barcelona
Florent Schmitt: Dionysiaques, op. 62 (1913) 10’
Banda Municipal de Barcelona (BMB)
Banda Sinfónica Portuguesa
José R. Pascual-Vilaplana, conductor
Manuel Martínez, clarinet
Performing to revisit ideas that already exist with a renewed vision is always an exercise in artistic commitment to time and space. Featuring the highly personal sound approach of this season’s tribute composer, Amando Blanquer, the debut of a new score by José Mª Sánchez Verdú and the music of contemporary Portuguese composers such as Luis Carvalho and Joao Malha, we delve into an original wind and percussion programme to celebrate the art of sound in its purest essence and diversity, accompanied by a legendary piece from the band’s repertoire: Dionysiaques. This piece was written in 1913 by Florent Schmitt and carries a mystical vision, which is similar in style to the popular The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky (premiered the same year, scandal included), and it is hard not to think about it.
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