Cover Cooke & Jones: Oboe Sonatas

Album info

Album-Release:
2020

HRA-Release:
03.04.2020

Label: Willowhayne Records

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Chamber Music

Artist: Catherine Tanner-Williams & Christopher Williams

Composer: Catherine Tanner-Williams & Christopher Williams, Richard Elfyn Jones, Arnold Cooke

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  • Arnold Cooke (1906 - 2005): Oboe Sonata No. 2:
  • 1Oboe Sonata No. 2: I. Lento - Allegro06:05
  • 2Oboe Sonata No. 2: II. Adagio06:12
  • 3Oboe Sonata No. 2: III. Rondo. Allegro vivace04:08
  • Arnold Cooke: Oboe Sonata No. 1:
  • 4Oboe Sonata No. 1: I. Andante - Allegro vivace06:08
  • 5Oboe Sonata No. 1: II. Andante05:37
  • 6Oboe Sonata No. 1: III. Rondo. Allegro giocoso06:38
  • Richard Elfyn Jones (b. 1944): Oboe Sonata "Viva Altea!":
  • 7Oboe Sonata "Viva Altea!": I. Fiesta en la Playa05:15
  • 8Oboe Sonata "Viva Altea!": II. Meditación03:36
  • 9Oboe Sonata "Viva Altea!": III. Barullo!04:22
  • Catherine Tanner-Williams (b. 1973):
  • 10Luminous06:16
  • 11Darkness Falling with Birdsong09:57
  • Total Runtime01:04:14

Info for Cooke & Jones: Oboe Sonatas



This recording of Arnold Cooke's two lyrical Oboe Sonatas is the first for many years, having previously been recorded by its dedicatees. Features three world premiere recordings: The Viva Altea! Sonata for Oboe and Piano, and oboist Catherine Tanner Williams.

An (almost!) World Premiere recording of Arnold Cooke's two oboe sonatas, the World Premiere recording of Richard Elfyn Jones's Spanish flavoured Oboe Sonata- 'Viva Altea!', and World Premiere recordings of Luminous and Darkness Falling with Birdsong by oboist and composer Catherine Tanner-Williams.

This album brings together oboe music by three composers who are linked by the premiering of each other's works.

Although the British Library lists recordings of radio broadcasts made by Evelyn Rothwell and Sarah Francis, made in the late 1980's, no recordings of Arnold Cooke's lyrical oboe sonatas have been commercially available.

Catherine Tanner-Williams, oboe
Christopher Williams, piano



Catherine Tanner-Williams
Cornish oboist Catherine studied Music at Cardiff University, where she met her husband, the pianist Christopher Williams.

They began playing together almost from the moment they met, and he accompanied her for her final degree recital, her ARCM (Performing) Diploma, and her final postgraduate recital at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. In their 25 years as a couple, on and off stage, they have performed together across the UK.

Their World Premiere recording of works by R.Strauss, Mozart and Glinka is available on Willowhayne Records.

While at university, Catherine gave the premiere of Anthony Power’s ...further in shadow... for oboe and orchestra, and won an award from The Countess of Munster Musical Trust to study with Douglas Boyd and Sophia McKenna. Her teachers also included David Cowley and Celia Craig. She has played principal oboe with many orchestras including Welsh Sinfonia, English Symphony Orchestra, Bath Philharmonia, Chamber Orchestra of Wales, Welsh Concert Orchestra, Orchestra de Cymru (with whom she recorded her own Oboe Concerto under Emmanuel Siffert), Festival Orchestra of Wales, Westward Chamber Orchestra, Burry Port Opera, St Woolos Sinfonia, Hereford Sinfonia, Cardiff Bach Orchestra (with whom she performed Bach’s Concerto for Oboe d’amore), and also freelanced with Cardiff Sinfonietta and BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

As well as her Oboe Concerto, other compositions include Darkness Falling, with Birdsong which she premiered with Chris in Cheltenham Town Hall; Hidden Birds for trumpet and piano, premiered by Philippe Schartz and Christopher Williams in Columbus, Ohio at the International Trumpet Guild; and the piano piece Blue and White; Dreaming of Sleep premiered in St David’s Hall, Cardiff by her husband.

Booklet for Cooke & Jones: Oboe Sonatas

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