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Oboist Celine Moinet has already released three

albums on Berlin Classics with music by Bach,

Schumann and French composers. Now she returns

with an album, where she pairs Mozart's Adagio for

English Horn K580a and Oboe Quartet with world

premiere recordings of the works by Luigi Gatti:

Quartet in F major and C major. The Italian composer

settled down in Salzburg in 1782, when he was

already an acquaintence to the Mozart family. Worth

discovering are Gatti's chamber works, created during

his later years as a retiree after the secularisation and

dissolution of the Salzburg prince-archbishopric in

1803. These works reveal him as a skilled and

inventive master of form, as well as an experimenter

in instrumentation. The F major quartet, in particular,

presents considerable virtuoso challenges, including

passages that push the oboe's range even higher than

Mozart's quartet, reaching up to high G (g'). This

daring extension of the oboe's tonal possibilities

marks Gatti as an innovator and serves as a testament

to his creative spirit.