Geoffrey Burgess
Geoffrey Burgess is a baroque oboist known for crisp, articulate and expressive period-instrument playing. He is a member of the Melbourne-based Elysium Ensemble.
On The Bach Family Circle (MD 3202) he turns to music for solo oboe and harpsichord, using arrangements and related works to sketch the instrument’s place in the Bach family circle—where no purely instrumental solo oboe music by J. S. Bach survives, yet the family was closely bound to the instrument.
The programme ranges from realisations after Bach to Telemann and C. P. E. Bach’s G minor Hobo Solo. Reviewers have praised the mastery of the baroque oboe: phrasing that is crisp and impeccable, and a tone that lifts the instrument far beyond the familiar caricature.
Geoffrey Burgess is featured on the following titles
The Bach Family Circle
Music for oboe and harpsichord. Acclaimed historical oboist Geoffrey Burgess and harpsichordist Ann Murphy explore the hypothetical voice of the lost Bach oboe through realisations and rescorings.
Contributor: Booklet notes
Geoffrey Burgess is a member of
Elysium Ensemble
The Elysium Ensemble has been acclaimed by critics for its exciting performances, fine musicianship and authoritative interpretations of Baroque and Classical repertoire on period instruments.