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Malcolm Messiter - 'The Heifetz of the oboe'
Lionel Markson, Records & Recordings

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London Festival Orchestra
Ross Pople, conductor
Malcolm Messiter, oboe
Robert Gibbs, violin

Malcolm Messiter began playing the oboe while at Bryanston School in Dorset. Within a year, he'd packed away his se
stethoscope in Dorset and left behind all thoughts of becoming a doctor to concentrate on the oboe. Two years later. In 1967 he won a scholarship to the Paris Conservatoire of Music.

Lionel Markson, Records & Recording:
"An astounding display of virtuosity such as I have never heard before from an oboist. Bewildering velocity of fingers and tongue, phenomenal breath control, harmonics and the upward extension of the oboe's range a fourth beyond its 'highest note'. F in altissimo, are allied to rhythmic vivacity and exuberant showmanship. Yet, we hear ravishing tone and a musician's sensibility. After my first encounter with the British oboist Malcolm Messiter I can best describe hi as the 'Heifetz of the oboe.' "