"I feel incredibly lucky that Bach wrote so much beautiful music for oboe and solo voice.  The way the Baroque oboe blends with voices is one of the reasons I decided to learn historical oboes... for me there's nothing like it!  A wonderful melding of sound and becoming one with the voice that I am playing with."

 

"In the year 2000 I had the honor of touring and performing in the places where Bach lived and worked.  He wrote much of his instrumental music in the peaceful little town of Cothen, which is still surrounded by fields and forest.  There is a brook which runs by the building where Bach lived.  It is a romantic place, and is where he fell in love with both of his wives, Anna Magdalena and Maria Barbara.  When I play Bach's oboe concerti, I keep in mind the serene town of Cothen because I think the joy of living there is reflected in his music..."

 

"Why today, more than 250 years later, his music still speaks to people's hearts?  Bach was a devout Lutheran who saw in the mathematics of music and science the underlying order of the Universe and a perfect expression of the Divine.  Bach believed music to be sacred, and the mathematical patterns it reveals - deeply profound.  His multi-dimensional understanding of music, numbers and the cosmos, combined with his pursuit of perfection and spiritual intent, lift his music above Baroque form and style and make it an eternal expression of the human condition."