QUOTE(pushpull @ Oct 27 2009, 04:11 PM)

QUOTE(Stephie @ Oct 27 2009, 01:35 PM)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhygJyCvYeANicholas Daniel playing the Mozart Oboe Conerto - amazing! Being a live performance there are some mistakes, but very minimal! Skip forward to 5:49 to see the cadenza, it's incredible.
If you go to
http://www.nicholasdaniel.com and select media, you will get links to various youtube videos including the Elliott Carter concerto and (joy oh joy) Britten's 6 Metamorphoses. Sublime stuff.
I was lucky enough to see him perform at the IDRS conference in Birmingham this year (well luck doesn't enter into it, I paid good money). He IS superb.
Yes i think I would have the recordings of the Metamorphoses as my favourites! But here is another solo oboe performance
Piazzolla Etude No 3 - solo oboeI've only recently discovered Piazzolla after buying the piano grade 8 book to play through and then found that there were solo flute etudes....and that you could play them on the oboe too!

(bit beyond me on both instruments at the moment but something to aspire to!)