Oboe quintet
# Oboe quintet

An oboe quintet is a chamber music group of five individuals led by an oboist, or music written for this ensemble.

Usually an oboe quintet consists of an oboe and string quartet. Pieces for five oboes or five members of the oboe family are uncommon (only two are listed below): double reed quintets are not only rare but almost always include a bassoon.

Of the 105 listed quintets, 35 were composed between 1770 and 1825, none in the next 65 years, 3 between 1880 and 1920, 27 between 1920 and 1980, and 40 since.

The most performed and recorded oboe quintets are probably those by Arnold Bax and Arthur Bliss, who both dedicated their pieces to the British oboist Léon Goossens.

## Music for oboe and string quartet

These pieces are for oboe, two violins, viola, and cello unless otherwise indicated.

| Composer | Title | Year | Length (min.) | Publisher | Record label |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bernardo Adam-Ferrero | Homenaje a García Lorca for ob & str qt | 2005 | 8' | | NCA |
| Kalevi Aho | Quintet for oboe & strings | 1973 | 29' | | BIS; Finlandia |
| Richard Arnell | Oboe Quintet | 1944 | 24' | | |
| Jan Bach | Quintet for ob & str | 1958 | 18' | Meadow Music | |
| Sérgio Azevedo | Oboe Quintet | 2004 | | AVA | |
| Robert Baksa | Quintet for Oboe and Strings | 1972 | 18' | Carl Fischer; Presser | Capstone |
| Virko Baley | Orpheus Singing | 1994 | 11' | | Cambria; Musicians Showcase |
| Christian Frederik Barth | Divertissement in G major for ob & str qt | 1820 | | MusicaStorica | |
| Arnold Bax | Oboe Quintet] | 1922 | 17' | Boosey & Hawkes | Recorded by 9+ labels |
| Howard Blake | Oboe Quintet, Op. 131 | 1971 | 13' | Highbridge Music | |
| Arthur Bliss | Quintet for ob & str, Op. 44, F. 21 | 1927 | 20' | OUP; Masters Music | Recorded by 8+ labels |
| Luigi Boccherini | 6 Oboe Quintets, Op. 45, G. 431-6 | 1797 | 9 to 11' | Sikorski; Peters | Capriccio; MHS |
| William Bolcom | Serenata Notturna | 2005 | 21' | Presser | |
| Rutland Boughton | Two Pieces for ob & str | 1937 | 8' | | Hyperion |
| Frits Celis | Quintetto, Op. 57 | 1995 | 21' | | Phaedra |
| Friedrich Cerha | Quintet for ob & str qt | 2007 | 17' | | |
| Brian Cherney | In the Stillness of the Summer Wind | 1987 | 16' | | |
| James Clarke | Oboe Quintet | 1992 | 8' | | Metier; Composers’ Art |
| John Cooney | Taking Liberties | 1990 | 12' | BMIC | |
| John Corigliano | Aria for ob & str qt | 1985 | 6' | G. Schirmer | Albany |
| Lewis Cornwell | Retrospection | 1981 | 6' | AMC | |
| Donald Crocket | Celestial Mechanics | 1990 | 17' | | CRI |
| Gordon Crosse | Oboe Quintet | 1988 | 15' | | |
| Bernhard Henrik Crusell | Divertimento in C major, Op. 9 | 1822 | 10' | Sikorski; Peters; Amadeus | Hyperion, Naxos |
| Estércio Marques Cunha | Quinteto para oboé e quarteto de cordas | 1999 | | Manuscrito | |
| Caspar Diethelm | Bucolicon, Op. 202 | 1982 | | | |
| Antal Dorati | Notturno and Capriccio | 1926 | 13' | | Dux; MD&G Records |
| Georg Druschetzky | Oboe Quintet in C major | 1808 | 13' | | Ambroisie |
| Dorothy Dushkin | Quintet for Amanda | 1956 | | New Valley | |
| Gerald Finzi | Interlude for ob & str qt, Op. 21 | 1936 | 11' | Boosey & Hawkes | Boston; Carlton; Chandos Conifer; Hyperion |
| Christopher Fox | Oboe Quintet | 1995 | 15' | BMIC | Metier |
| Joseph-François Garnier | Quintette concerto en ut majeur | 1790 | 7' | | Koch Schwann |
| Dorothy Gow | Oboe Quintet in 1 movement | 1936 | 14' | | Oboe Classics |
| Stephen Gryc | Fantasy Variations on a Theme of Béla Bartók | 1992 | 11' | | Opus One |
| Daron Hagen | Oboe Quintet | 2000 | 17' | Burning Sled | |
| Matthew Hindson | Rush : for ob & str qt | 2001 | 9' | Faber | |
| Gustav Holst | Air and Variations for ob & str qt Three pieces for ob & str qt Op. 2 | 1896 | 3' 13' | | Chandos |
| John-Paul Christopher Jackson | Passacaglia for ob & str qt | 1993 | 6' | | |
| Gordon Jacob | Concerto for ob & str qt | 1933 | 23' | Stainer & Bell | |
| Bernhard Kaun | Quintet for ob & str | 1940 | | Leeds | |
| Charles Koechlin | 6 Pieces, Op. 179 | 1942 | | Eschig | |
| Rodolphe Kreutzer | Grand Quintet in C major | 1800 | 15' | Boosey & Hawkes | Hyperion; Koch |
| Franz Krommer | Oboe Quintet P VII:12 in C major Oboe Quintet P VII:13 in E flat major | 1790 | 24' 27' | | Naxos |
| Rolands Kronlaks | Conversion | 2000 | 7' | | |
| Henri Lazarof | Quintet for ob & str qt | 1997 | 15' | Presser | |
| John Anthony Lennon | Myth of Aeolia | 2008 | 10' | ACA | |
| Elisabeth Lutyens | The Fall of the Leafe | 1966 | | Olivan | |
| Andrew Paul MacDonald | Pythikos nomos, Op. 39 | 1996 | 23' | | Centrediscs |
| Elizabeth Maconchy | Oboe Quintet | 1932 | 12' | Chester Music | Oboe Classics; Dutton Vocalion |
| David Matthews | The Flaying of Marsyas, Op. 42 | 1987 | 19' | Faber | Metronome |
| Robert McBride | Quintet for ob & str | 1948 | 5' | G. Schirmer; ACA | |
| Darius Milhaud | Les Rêves de Jacob, Op. 294 | 1948 | 17' | Heugel | CPO |
| Richard Mills | Songs without Words | 1998 | | AMC | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart arr. Lucarelli | Oboe Quintet in C minor, K. 406 | 1789 | 24' | IMC | Naxos; Capriccio; Caro Mitis; Amon Ra |
| Gottfried Müller | Quintet for ob & str qt | 1950 | 19' | Küffner & Drechsler | Cavalli |
| Vazgen Muradian | Concerto for ob & str qt, Op. 25 | 1962 | 25' | | Crystal |
| Josef Mysliveček | 6 Quintets for ob & str qt | 1770 | | | |
| Sigismund Neukomm | Quintet for ob & str qt, Op. 8 in B-flat | 1809 | 26' | Amadeus | Pan Classics |
| Páll Pálsson | September Sonnet | 1991 | 9' | Icelandic Music | |
| Gabriel Pierné | Piece in G minor for ob & str qt, Op. 5 | 1883 | 3' | Masters Music | |
| Ignace Joseph Pleyel | 3 Quintets, B.280-282 | 1788 | | J.A.Offenbach | |
| Quincy Porter | Oboe Quintet (Elegiac) | 1966 | 19' | Highgate Press | CRI (CRL235) |
| David L. Post | Aria for ob & str qt | 1994 | 6' | F.E. Warren | |
| Roger Redgate | Quintet for Oboe and Strings | 2003 | 6' | | Metier |
| Anton Reicha | Oboe Quintet in F major, Op. 107 | 1825 | 26' | Musica Rara | Hyperion; MDG; Pan |
| Tim Risher | Words and Deeds | 1993 | | | |
| Aulis Sallinen | Echoes from a Play, Op. 66 | 1990 | 15' | Novello | |
| Gerhard Samuel | Two Moods for ob & str qt | 1997 | | LKM | |
| Peter Seabourne | Soaring | 2007 | 17' | | |
| John Shaffer Smith | Quintet for ob & str qt | 1951 | | Carl Fischer | |
| Margaret Sutherland | Serenade | 1953 | | AMC | |
| Tore Takemitsu | Entre-temps for ob & str qt | 1986 | 12' | Schott | Telarc |
| Joan Tower | Island Prelude | 1989 | 10' | G. Schirmer | Naxos |
| Antonín Tučapský | Oboe Quintet | 1997 | | | |
| Mark-Anthony Turnage | Cantilena | 2001 | 11' | | Onyx Classics |
| Robert Ward | Quintet for ob & str qt | 2005 | 19' | | Albany |
| Donald Wheelock | Ten bagatelles | 1972 | 9' | King's Crown | Albany |
| John Woolrich | Oboe Quintet | 1998 | 20' | Faber | |
| Anton Wranitzky | Quintet in G minor | 1800 | | | |
| Paul Wranitzky | 6 Quintets for ob & str, Op. 1 | 1789 | | André | |

## Other settings

| Composer | Title | Year | Length (min.) | Publisher | Record label |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Jos van Amelsvoort | Quintetto I | 1994 | 10' | Donemus | |
| Rob du Bois | Chansons pour appâter les chéiroptères | 1975 | 8' | Donemus | |
| Théodore Dubois | Oboe Quintet in F major) | 1905 | 28' | Silvertrust | ATMA Classique |
| Anton Eberl | Quintuor Brillant in C, Op. 48 | 1790 | 23' | | CPO |
| David Froom | Quintet for Oboe, Strings and Piano | 1991 | 17' | | Arabesque |
| Peter Golub | Quintet for Oboe, String Trio and Piano | 2010 | | | |
| Franz Anton Hoffmeister | 6 Notturnos (Quintets) | 1780 | 14' to 22' | | Tudor Records |
| Sergei Prokofiev | Quintet in G minor, Op. 39 | 1923 | 20' | | Delos; Capriccio; Cambria |
| Johann Samuel Schroeter | Quintet 1 in C | 1780 | | | |
