(And, whomever you are sir, not a bad introduction to the oboe!) Noseda opened Tchaikovsky’s “Symphony No. 6” with glacial grace, slowly brightening its dusky bassoons, bass and violas.

You can hear the pain unfold in the oboe's long-breathed sighs of anguish. Its serpentine melody intertwines with the solo violin of Erich Höbarth (who also conducts the satisfying Camerata Bern ...

Oboe playing, like bird watching and taffy pulling, is a passion that seems to run in families. The earliest famous oboe clan was that of Frenchman Jean Philidor, who played at the court of Louis ...

Here's how Mitchell Kuhn is going to spend his summer vacation. He'll travel to New York, then to Washington, D.C., Moscow and St. Petersburg, and finally London. He'll go as one of five oboe pla… ...