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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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Upcoming Events
Emmanuel Pahud and the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
April 30th 2025 at 19:30
Ravel – Le Tombeau de Couperin
Ibert – Flute Concerto
Debussy – Jeux
Debussy – La Mer
Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Emmanuel Pahud – flute
János Kovács – conductor
Ravel, Ibert, Debussy – János Kovács will be conducting works by all three of these great French composers at the helm of the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. The soloist for the evening is Swiss flautist Emmanuel Pahud, an established star of the international music scene. His concerts in Hungary always draw great interest. As a soloist, chamber musician and orchestra member, he ranks among the very top players of his instrument. One of the gems of his repertoire is Jacques Ibert’s Flute Concerto, which he also recorded two decades ago.
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Orchestre de Paris – Strauss Oboe Concerto
30/04/2025 8:00 pm
Salle des concerts - Cité de la musique, 221 Av. Jean Jaurès, 75019 Paris, France
Orchestre de Paris – Strauss Oboe Concerto
April 30th 2025 at 20:00 – 21:30
Orchestre de Paris
Holly Hyun Choe – conductor
Alexandre Gattet – oboe
Stéphanie Huang – cello
Between the limpid classicism of Strauss, the bounding energy of a more Broadway-esque than ever Bernstein, the serenity of Saariaho, and the most cheerful of Shostakovich’s symphonies, this program offers us four faces of joy.
How can one resist the neoclassical charm of Strauss’s Oboe Concerto? The spirit of Mozart lives on in these melodic and humorous passages, whose sustained singing nevertheless remains a formidable test for the soloist.
Linked to the ballet Fancy Free, the three dances from On the Town embody all of Bernstein’s hedonism: in the last, the frenzied sailors converge on Times Square for an unforgettable night of fun.
More peaceful, almost mystical in their quest for the suspended moment and the ephemeral, are the Seven Butterflies by Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, whose cello, which she uses in innovative ways, is her preferred instrument.
To conclude, this is the most elliptical of Shostakovich’s symphonies, and one of the most surprising in that it lacks—except in the Largo—the power and dark drama of the others. It is said that Stalin, expecting more grandeur, flew into a rage at such frivolity!
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The Just – Berlage Saxophone Quartet
01/05/2025 8:15 pm
De Grote Zaal, Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Piet Heinkade 1, 1019 BR Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Just – Berlage Saxophone Quartet
March 5th 2026 at 20:15 – 22:00
Pēteris Vasks – The Fruit of Silence (arr. Peter Vigh for saxophone quartet and choir)
Lera Auerbach – Selection from 72 Angels
Pēteris Vasks – Actus Caritatis (for choir a-capella)
Dmitri Shostakovich – Lullaby from From Jewish Folk Poetry (arr. Max Knigge)
Peter Vigh – Zeven jaar en drie weken – de vlucht van Leo en Bella Adler
Cappella Amsterdam
Jan Brokken – Reciter
Daniel Reuss – conductor
Berlage Saxophone Quartet
Lars Niederstrasser – soprano saxophone
Peter Vigh – alto saxophone
Juani Palop Tecles – tenor saxophone
Eva van Grinsven – baritone saxophone
In The Just, based on master storyteller Jan Brokken’s book of the same name (in Dutch: De Rechtvaardigen), Cappella Amsterdam presents the unknown, compelling story of Dutch consul Jan Zwartendijk. He risked his life for the freedom of others. At the beginning of World War II, he issued visas to thousands of Jews in Kaunas, Lithuania. With this visa for Curaçao, they could travel to Japan via the Trans-Siberian Express and escape the Holocaust.
In our time, the news is still dominated by refugee crises, most often in regions beyond Europe’s borders. But the devastating war in Ukraine has ignited a new conflict zone right within Europe, forcing countless innocent people to flee their homes and become refugees. This concert is about how one person’s good deeds can save thousands of lives. Jan Brokken himself takes the stage to narrate the story, accompanied by choir and saxophone quartet.
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