BARELLA, WASHINGTON - oboe
FARR, CHRIS - harpsichord

J.S. Bach & Sons Washington Barella, oboe & Chris Farr, harpsichord C.Ph.E. Bach: Sonata in G minor for Oboe and Continuo Wt 135 J.S. Bach: Sonata in G minor for Oboe and Continuo BWV 1020; Partita in G minor (tr. of BWV 1030); Sonata in G minor for Oboe BWV 1030 B W.F. Bach: 3 fugues from Acht Fugen fr Orgel oder Clavier, Falck no.31

Oboist Washington Barella has gained major international recognition through a series of competition prizes in Europe, the United States and his native Brazil. Hailed by The New York Times for his rich-toned lyricism and full-power virtuosity, Mr. Barella was most recently named a Laureate of the 1991 Munich Competition (International Music Competition of the ARD) He is the first-ever American-trained oboist to win a major prize at this competition; past winners include Heinz Holliger and Maurice Bourgue. In the U.S., Mr. Barella won the First Prize of the 1991 Concert Artists Guild New York Competition; Brazilian awards include prizes from the National, Piracicaba, and Eldorado Competitions.

(...) Barella plays with an attractive directness. Classical Recordings, March 1993(...) Barellas playing is consistenty impressive and beautiful throughout this program (...) Fanfare, November 1992 (...) The performances are enhanced bij the engineering, which exhibits a complemen-tary balance between oboe and harpsichord (...) CD REVIEW, October, 1992