Alessandro Marcello - Oboe Concerto in D minor, S D935 - Ramon Ortega, oboe - Zagreb soloists

Alessandro Marcello Oboe Concerto in D minor, S D935 Zagreb soloists Ramon Ortega, oboe I. Andante e spiccato - 00:00 II. Adagio - 03:37 III. Presto - 07:24 The Oboe Concerto in D minor, SD 935, is an early 18th-century concerto for oboe, strings and continuo attributed to the Venetian composer Alessandro Marcello. The earliest extant manuscript containing Johann Sebastian Bach’s solo keyboard arrangement of the concerto, BWV 974, dates from around 1715. As a concerto for oboe, strings and continuo its oldest extant sources date from 1717: that year it was printed in Amsterdam, and a C minor variant of the concerto, SZ 799, was written down. Bach’s keyboard version was published as an arrangement of a concerto by Antonio Vivaldi in the 19th century. In 1923 the C minor version of the oboe concerto was published as a composition by Benedetto Marcello, Alessandro’s brother. In the second half of the 20th century several publications indicated Alessandro again as