Déjà vu in A major for Oboe d´amore

Stranz Déjà vu in A major for Oboe d´amore

For many years the manuscript of “Déjà vu” slumbered in the music library of oboist Hansjörg Schellenberger (former solo oboist of the Berlin Philharmonic) before it was rediscovered in 2021. 

Ulrich Stranz composed this solo work for Oboe d’amore, the alto instrument in the oboe family, at the end of his student years in 1974 as the nucleus of his later identically named concert piece (BA06292-72). The dedicatee Hansjörg Schellenberger refers to it as a “masterwork” and “an important enrichment of the repertoire of oboists”.

- Rediscovered almost 50 years after its composition, posthumous publication

- Important contribution to the solo repertoire for the alto instrument in the oboe family

- Intense music, rich in colours, and of moderate difficulty