Marcel Tabuteau First-Hand

MT era oboe

Solo/Soli with Orchestra

Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto for Oboe and Violin in C Minor, BWV 1060
Original Release Format: LP
Label: Columbia Masterworks
Catalog #: ML 4351
Year Recorded: 1950
Soloists: Marcel Tabuteau, oboe; Isaac Stern, violin
Conductor: Pablo Casals
Orchestra: Prades Festival Orchestra

Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F Major, BWV 1046
Original Release Format: LP
Label: Columbia Masterworks
Catalog #: ML 4345
Year Recorded: 1950
Soloists: Marcel Tabuteau, Laila Storch & John Mack, oboes; Alexander Schneider, violin; Maurice Allard, bassoon; Lucien Thevet & Gilbert Coursier, French horns
Conductor: Pablo Casals
Orchestra: Prades Festival Orchestra

Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major, BWV 1047
Original Release Format: 78 RPM set
Label: Victor
Catalog #: 7087-7089
Year Recorded: 1928
Soloists: Marcel Tabuteau, oboe; Mischa Mischakoff, violin; William Kincaid, flute; Saul Caston, trumpet; Willem van den Berg, cello
Conductor: Leopold Stokowski
Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra

Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major, BWV 1047
Original Release Format: 78 RPM set
Label: World’s Greatest Music
Catalog #: SR-14/15
Year Recorded: 1938
Soloists: Marcel Tabuteau, oboe; Alexander Hilsberg, violin; William Kincaid, flute; Saul Caston, trumpet; Isadore Gusikoff, cello
Conductor: (Eugene Ormandy)
Orchestra: (Philadelphia Orchestra)

Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major, BWV 1047
Original Release Format: LP
Label: Columbia Masterworks
Catalog #: ML 4345
Year Recorded: 1950
Soloists: Marcel Tabuteau, oboe; Alexander Schneider, violin; John Wummer, flute; Marcel Mule, soprano saxophone; Paul Tortelier, cello
Conductor: Pablo Casals
Orchestra: Prades Festival Orchestra

Johann Sebastian Bach: Suite for Orchestra No. 1 in C Major, BWV 1066
Original Release Format: LP
Label: Columbia Masterworks
Catalog #: ML 4348
Year Recorded: 1950
Winds: Marcel Tabuteau & Laila Storch, oboes; Maurice Allard, bassoon
Conductor: Pablo Casals
Orchestra: Prades Festival Orchestra

[Note: George Barati: Chamber Concerto is sometimes listed with Marcel Tabuteau as the oboist. It was recorded in 1960 long after Tabuteau retired from the Philadelphia Orchestra.]

Georg Friedrich Handel: Concerto No. 3 for Oboe in G Minor
Original Release Format: LP
Label: Columbia Masterworks
Catalog #: ML 4629
Year Recorded: 1952
Soloist: Marcel Tabuteau, oboe
Conductor: Eugene Ormandy
Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra

Jacques Ibert: Tunis—Nefta (from Escales)
Tape of Radio Broadcast (CBS)
Year Recorded: 1947
Soloists: Marcel Tabuteau, oboe
Conductor: Dimitri Mitropoulos
Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Divertimento for Oboe, 2 Horns and Strings No. 11 in D Major, K 251
Original Release Format: LP
Label: Columbia Masterworks
Catalog #: ML 4566
Year Recorded: 1951
Oboe Solo: Marcel Tabuteau
Conductor: Pablo Casals
Orchestra: Perpignan Festival Orchestra

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante for Winds in E♭ Major, K. 297b
[Determined not to be by Mozart]
Original Release Format: 78 RPM set
Label: Victor
Catalog #: 17732-17735
Year Recorded: 1940
Soloists: Marcel Tabuteau, oboe; Bernard Portnoy, clarinet; Sol Schoenbach, bassoon; Mason Jones, French horn
Conductor: Leopold Stokowski
Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante for Winds in E♭ Major, K. 297b
[Determined not to be by Mozart]
Tape of Radio Broadcast
Year Recorded: 1948
Soloists: Marcel Tabuteau, oboe; Ralph McLane, clarinet; Sol Schoenbach, bassoon; Mason Jones, French horn
Conductor: Eugene Ormandy
Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra

Franz Schubert: German Dance, Op. 33, No. 3 (labeled “Viennese Dances”)
Original Release Format: 78 RPM disc
Label: Victor
Catalog #: 74814
Year Recorded: 1922
Soloist: Marcel Tabuteau
Conductor: Leopold Stokowski
Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra

Jean Sibelius: The Swan of Tuonela from Op.22 (English Horn)
Original Release Format: 78 RPM disc
Label: Victor
Catalog #: 7380
Year Recorded: 1929
Soloist: Marcel Tabuteau, English horn
Conductor: Leopold Stokowski
Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra

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An audio interview with Joan Browne (Champie), a private Tabuteau student in the early 1950s.

A photograph of the music stand that was in Tabuteau’s private studio in Philadelphia.

An autographed photo of Marcel Tabuteau inscribed to Vladimir Sokoloff.

An autographed photo of Marcel Tabuteau inscribed to Joan Browne Champie.

With the passing of Wilbur Isaac Hilles in August 2023 and now Martha Scherer-Alfee in February 2024, no oboe students of Marcel Tabuteau at the Curtis Institute are still living.

A letter sent to the Curtis Institute by Laila Storch’s mother about Tabuteau not teaching at Curtis—and the reply.