Important oboe solos in the orchestral repertoire performed by Marcel Tabuteau will be added to this page periodically. Excerpts of 20 seconds or more (rather than shorter episodes) will qualify for inclusion.
 Marcel Tabuteau ExcerptsOriginal Release Format: CD (from 78 RPMs) Label: Boston Records Catalog #: 1021 Release Date: 01/01/2001 Conductor: Leopold Stokowski Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra |
 Johannes Brahms: Concerto for Violin in D Major, Op. 77 (2nd movement)*Original Release Format: 78 RPM set Label: Columbia Masterworks Catalog #: MM-603 Year Recorded: 1945 Soloist: Joseph Szigeti Conductor: Eugene Ormandy Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra *Perhaps the most celebrated oboe solo in the symphonic repertoire. One wonders what Tabuteau’s retort would have been to Pablo de Sarasate’s reported remark: “I have no wish to stand there, violin in hand, listening to the oboe playing the only tune in the entire work.”(!) Sarasate refused to perform it.
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| Samuel Barber: Violin Concerto, Op. 14 (2nd Movement)* Original Release Format: CD of Radio Broadcast Label: West Hill Radio Archives Catalog #: 6039 Year Recorded: 1941 Soloist: Albert Spalding Conductor: Eugene Ormandy Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra *In the opinion of Barbara Heyman, Samuel Barber’s renowned biographer, and Marc Mostovoy, a Tabuteau student and cognoscente on the genesis of the Barber Violin Concerto, the second movement opening oboe solo was most likely written with the Brahms Violin Concerto and Marcel Tabuteau in mind. Barber greatly admired both the composer and oboist; he attended many of Tabuteau’s wind classes at Curtis. The premier was to be given by the Philadelphia Orchestra where Tabuteau, as principal oboist, often performed the Brahms solo, and where Barber most probably heard it. The confluence of all these factors points heavily towards that conclusion. |
| Johann Sebastian Bach: Fugue in G Minor, BWV 578 (Stokowski Transcription) Original Release Format: 78 RPM Label: Victor Catalog #: 7437 Year Recorded: 1931 Conductor: Leopold Stokowski |
| Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68 (2nd movement) Original Release Format: 78 RPM set Label: Victor Catalog #: M-15 Year Recorded: 1927 Conductor: Leopold Stokowski Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra |
| Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68 (2nd movement) Original Release Format: 78 RPM set Label: Victor Catalog #: M-301 Year Recorded: 1935 Conductor: Leopold Stokowski Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra |
| Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68 (2nd movement) Original Release Format: 45 RPM set Label: Columbia Catalog #: A-1089 Year Recorded: 1950 Conductor: Eugene Ormandy Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra |
| Pablo Casals: Sardana “Sant Marti di Canigou” Original Release Format: LP Label: Columbia Catalog #: ML 4926 Year Recorded: 1950 Conductor: Pablo Casals Orchestra: Prades Festival Orchestra |
| Claude Debussy: Images pour orchestre; No. 2 Iberia Original Release Format: LP (Not issued on 78 RPM) Label: RCA Catalog #: CRM5-1900 Year Recorded: 1941 Conductor: Arturo Toscanini Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra |
| Henry Eichheim: Japanese Nocturne Original Release Format: 78 RPM Label: Victor Catalog #: 7260 Year Recorded: 1929 Conductor: Leopold Stokowski Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra |
| Victor Herbert: Irish Rhapsody Original Release Format: 45 RPM set Label: Columbia Catalog #: A-1030 Year Recorded: 1952 Conductor: Eugene Ormandy Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra ‘Pops’ |
| Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov: Caucasian Sketches, Op 10 (In the Village) Original Release Format: 78 RPM Label: Victor Catalog #: 6514 Year Recorded: 1925 Conductor: Leopold Stokowski Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra |
| Modest Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain (arr. Stokowski) Original Release Format: 78 RPM set Label: Victor Catalog #: 17900 Year Recorded: 1940 Conductor: Leopold Stokowski Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra |
| Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Schéhérazade, Op. 35 (2nd movement) Original Release Format: 78 RPM set Label: Victor Catalog #: M-23 Year Recorded: 1927 Conductor: Leopold Stokowski Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra |
| Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Schéhérazade, Op. 35 (2nd movement) Original Release Format: 78 RPM set Label: Victor Catalog #: M-269 Year Recorded: 1934 Conductor: Leopold Stokowski Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra |
| Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Schéhérazade, Op. 35 (2nd movement)
Original Release Format: 78 RPM set Label: Columbia Catalog #: MM-772 Year Recorded: 1947 Conductor: Eugene Ormandy Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra |
| Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Schéhérazade, Op. 35 (2nd movement) Original Release Format: 45 RPM set Label: Columbia Catalog #: A-1103 Year Recorded: 1953 Conductor: Eugene Ormandy Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra |
| Camille Saint Saëns: Samson et Dalila, Op 47 (Bacchanale) Original Release Format: 78 RPM Label: Victor Catalog #: 6241 Year Recorded: 1920 Conductor: Leopold Stokowski Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra |
| Camille Saint Saëns: Samson et Dalila, Op 47 (Bacchanale) Original Release Format: 78 RPM Label: Victor Catalog #: 6823 Year Recorded: 1927 Conductor: Leopold Stokowski Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra |
| Erik Satie: Gymnopedies No. 1 Original Release Format: 78 RPM Label: Victor Catalog #: 1965 Year Recorded: 1937 Conductor: Leopold Stokowski Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra |
| Erik Satie: Gymnopedies No. 3 Original Release Format: 78 RPM Label: Victor Catalog #: 1965 Year Recorded: 1937 Conductor: Leopold Stokowski Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra |
| Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D 759 “Unfinished” (2nd movement) Original Release Format: 78 RPM set Label: Victor Catalog #: 6459/61 Year Recorded: 1924 Conductor: Leopold Stokowski Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra |
| Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D 759 “Unfinished” (2nd movement) Original Release Format: 78 RPM set Label: Victor Catalog #: 6663/65 Year Recorded: 1927 Conductor: Leopold Stokowski Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D 759 “Unfinished” (2nd movement) |
| Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D 759 “Unfinished” (2nd movement) Original Release Format: 78 RPM set Label: Columbia Catalog #: 12639/41-D Year Recorded: 1947 Conductor: Bruno Walter Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra |
| Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C Major, D 944 “Great” (2nd movement) Original Release Format: LP (Not issued on 78 RPM) Label: Victor Catalog #: LD-2663 Year Recorded: 1941 Conductor: Arturo Toscanini Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra |
| Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 61 (3rd movement) Original Release Format: 78 RPM set Label: Victor Catalog #: M-448 Year Recorded: 1936 Conductor: Eugene Ormandy Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra |
| Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 10 (3rd movement) Original Release Format: 78 RPM set Label: Victor Catalog #: M-192 Year Recorded: 1933 Conductor: Leopold Stokowski Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra |
| Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47 (3rd Movement) Original Release Format: 78 RPM set Label: Victor Catalog #: 15737/42 Year Recorded: 1939 Conductor: Leopold Stokowski Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra Johann Strauss der Jüngere: Gypsy Baron Overture |
| Richard Strauss: Don Quixote, Op. 35 (Introduction) Original Release Format: 78 RPM set Label: Victor Catalog #: M-720 Year Recorded: 1940 Conductor: Eugene Ormandy Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra Richard Strauss: Salome, Op. 54 (Dance of the Seven Veils) |
| Richard Strauss: Salome, Op. 54 (Dance of the Seven Veils) Original Release Format: 78 RPM set Label: Victor Catalog #: 7259/60 Year Recorded: 1929 Conductor: Leopold Stokowski Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra |
| Richard Strauss: Salome, Op. 54 (Dance of the Seven Veils) Original Release Format: CD (Not issued on 78 RPM) Label: Cala CD Catalog #: 0502 Year Recorded: 1937 Conductor: Leopold Stokowski Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra |
| Richard Strauss: Salome, Op. 54 (Dance of the Seven Veils) Original Release Format: 78 RPM Label: Columbia Catalog #: 13162-D Year Recorded: 1947 Conductor: Eugene Ormandy Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra |
| Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36 (2nd movement) Original Release Format: 78 RPM set Label: Victor Catalog #: M-48 Year Recorded: 1928 Conductor: Leopold Stokowski Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra |
| Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36 (2nd movement) Original Release Format: 78 RPM set Label: Columbia Catalog #: M-736 Year Recorded: 1947 Conductor: Eugene Ormandy Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra |
| Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36 (2nd movement) Original Release Format: LP Label: Columbia Catalog #: ML-5074 Year Recorded: 1953 Conductor: Eugene Ormandy Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra |
| Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto Grosso Op. 3, No. 11 in D Minor; RV 565 (2nd Movement) Stokowski transcription Original Release Format: 78 RPM set Label: Victor Catalog #: 8550-8551 Year Recorded: 1934 Conductor: Leopold Stokowski Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra |
| Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser; Act III–Prelude Original Release Format: 78 RPM set Label: Victor Catalog #: M-448 Year Recorded: 1936 Conductor: Leopold Stokowski Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra |
