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Howarth of London is a specialist woodwind instrument maker and retailer. Known all over the world as makers of the finest oboes, oboes d’amore and cors anglais, our instruments are made in our dedicated manufacturing workshops in Worthing, West Sussex.
We use high-tech CNC machinery to make precision components for our instruments which are then hand-assembled by highly experienced technicians into our beautiful instruments.
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Upcoming Events
In the Garden of Oboes
August 17th 2024 at 17:00 – 19:00
GIOVANNI BATTISTA SAMMARTINI (1700 – 1775)
Sinfonie Nr. 21 in D-Dur
Sinfonie Nr. 28 in Es-Dur
GIUSEPPE SAMMARTINI (1695 – 1750)
Oboenkonzert Nr. 12 in C-Dur (Erste Wiederaufführung seit 300 Jahren)
Concerto grosso Op 5 Nr. 3 in g-Moll
NICOLA ANTONIO PORPORA (1686 – 1768)
«Miseri fuenturati», Arie aus «Ariadne» (Instrumentalfassung)
GEORG FRIEDRICH HÄNDEL (1685 – 1759)
Ouvertüre in B-Dur zu «Esther», HWV 50 (wird nur bei den Konzerten in Bern und Solothurn gespielt)
Largo aus Concerto grosso Opus 3, Nr. 2 in B-Dur, HWV 313
CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK (1714 – 1787)
Sinfonia und Serenade aus «Don Juan» Pantomimen Ballett, Wien 1761
Artistic Director: Meret Lüthi
Solist: Benoît Laurent (Barockoboe)
Orchester: Les Passions de l’Âme
Seedlings of the symphony and daffodil flowers for the oboe grow in the Sammartini brothers’ garden.
Giuseppe Sammartini became the most famous oboist of the 18th century in London. The soloist Benoît Laurent will present his Oboe Concerto No. 12 in C major as the first revival.
The symphonic music of his younger brother, Giovanni Battista, influenced European music history from his hometown of Milan. The program is enriched with oboe solos by Nicola Antonio Porpora and Georg Friedrich Handel, which were composed specifically for the oboist Giuseppe Sammartini, as well as a serenada for oboe and plucking orchestra from “Don Juan” by C. W. Gluck, a student of Giovanni Battista.
Entry is Free to this concert.
Les Matins du National – Mozart / Dvořák
22/09/2024 11:00 am
Auditorium - Maison de la Radio et de la Musique, 116 Av. du Président Kennedy, 75016 Paris, France
Les Matins du National – Mozart / Dvořák
September 22nd 2024 at 11:00 – 13:00
Intruders within the ropes? Rather, accomplices, friends for a day who share their flavor, their sweetness, their roughness perhaps: in Mozart, it is the oboe which slips between the violin, the viola and the cello, partners of a deliciously sorrowful Adagio; for Dvořák, the arrival of the piano within the quartet prolongs the nostalgia for the dumka, this ballad of Ukrainian origin in which his Quintet is immersed.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Quatuor pour hautbois et cordes en fa majeur KV 370
Antonín Dvořák: Quintette pour piano n°2 en la majeur opus 81
Claire Désert: piano
Alexandre Worms: hautbois
Ghislaine Benabdallah: violon
Adeliya Chamrina: alto
Benjamin Estienne: violon
Raphaël Perraud: violoncelle
Saskia de Ville: présentation