Diana Doherty
Diana Doherty’s oboe carries a clear, singing line through Australian orchestral and chamber scores, from Ross Edwards’s danced concerto to Tony Gould’s mix of pastoral calm and harder industrial colour.
She is closely tied to Edwards’s Oboe Concerto, a work that asks the soloist to move as well as play, and has recorded it alongside concertos and chamber pieces by Haydn, Mozart, Martinů, Zimmermann, Graeme Koehne and Carl Vine. On Gould’s Chronicle she switches between oboe and cor anglais across film scores, a poetry-inspired suite and orchestral writing that can turn from ephemeral charm to something more forceful. Years as principal in Lucerne and then with the Sydney Symphony shaped a sound built for both the section and the front of the stage.
Diana Doherty appears on
Chronicle: Orchestral Music of Tony Gould
The definition of the word “chronicle” — put briefly “a record of events” — aptly fits this recording. Chronicle forms an inspiring record of musical events in the life of Tony Gould, one of Australia’s most creative musicians and composers.