Longing for Paradise

Star oboist Albrecht Mayer is now following his highly successful baroque album Tesori d'Italia with a new release, Longing for Paradise. It contains one of the most demanding works in the repertoire for his instrument: Richard Strauss's first and only Oboe Concerto, premièred in 1946. Augmenting the Strauss concerto are a new arrangement of Ravel's famous Le Tombeau de Couperin for oboe and orchestra as well as less familiar masterpieces by Edward Elgar and Eugène Goosens. Albrecht Mayer is accompanied by the Bamberg Symphony under Jakub Hrusa, the orchestra's principal conductor since September 2016.