Albrecht Mayer
Albrecht Mayer may be best known as the principal oboist for the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, but he is celebrated across the world as a soloist and chamber musician on the oboe, as well as the English horn and oboe d'amore. To that end, Mayer took up all three instruments for the 2023 album Bach Generations, leading the Berliner Barock Solisten.
Mayer was born in Erlangen, Germany, on June 3, 1965. After studying piano, recorder, and voice at a young age, Mayer took up the oboe at age ten. He studied oboe under Gerhard Scheuer, Georg Meerwein, Maurice Bourgue, and Ingo Goritzki. An early orchestral position for Mayer was with the European Community Youth Orchestra. His career as a professional oboist began in 1990 when he was named principal oboist of his hometown Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. In 1992, Mayer left the Bamberg Symphony and joined the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra as its principal oboist. Along with the orchestra, Mayer also performs with the Philharmonic's wind ensembles.
As a soloist and chamber musician, Mayer has performed much of the existing repertoire for his instruments while also looking for ways to expand it further through arrangements and transcriptions. With an affinity for the human voice, Mayer has transcribed several vocal works, as can be found on his 2003 album Johann Sebastian Bach: Lieder ohne Worte, as well as his 2006 album New Seasons, which features Mayer performing the vocal lines of Handel's music on oboe, oboe d'amore, or English horn. Other composers he's arranged or transcribed include Vivaldi, Ravel, and Debussy. Mayer is also enthusiastic about expanding the repertoire with new music, as can be heard on Martin Grubinger's album Drums 'n' Chant. As a chamber musician, Mayer's collaborators include Hélène Grimaud, Thomas Quasthoff, and Leif Ove Andsnes. He has appeared as a soloist with Claudio Abbado, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, and Nigel Kennedy, among others.
Mayer has earned several awards as a recording artist, including the Echo Klassik "Instrumentalist of the Year" award twice. He has almost exclusively recorded for the Deutsche Grammophon label. In 2019, he was joined by conductor Jakub Hrusa and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra for the album Longing for Paradise. He returned in 2021 with a recording of Mozart's oboe concertos and a recording of music by Peteris Vasks (on Ondine). In 2023, Mayer took up his three instruments and led the Berliner Barock Solisten on the album Bach Generations, and he joined the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra as part of Leipzig's Bach300 Festival, marking the 300-year anniversary of Bach's appointment to the St. Thomas School.
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Winter Moods
Daniel Hope, Andreas Ottensamer, Albrecht Mayer
Classical - Lançado por UME - Global Clearing House em 12/12/2020
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Vocalise
Classical - Lançado por Deutsche Grammophon (DG) em 13/10/2016
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Odermatt: Les couleurs de l'eau, Op. 22: I. Fleuve tranquille et puissant (Musical Moments)
Classical - Lançado por Deutsche Grammophon (DG) em 16/10/2020
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Bonjour Paris
Albrecht Mayer, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Mathias Mönius
Classical - Lançado por Decca Music Group Ltd. em 01/01/2010
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Penderecki: Music for Chamber Orchestra
Albrecht Mayer, Jakub Haufa, Sinfonia Varsovia, Artur Paciorkiewicz, Krzysztof Penderecki, Jerzy Klocek
Classical - Lançado por DUX em 24/02/2009
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Oboe Recital
Classical - Lançado por Warner Classics em 01/02/1999
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Voices of Bach
Albrecht Mayer, Trinity Baroque, The English Concert
Classical - Lançado por Decca Music Group Ltd. em 01/01/2009
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Oboe Recital: Mayer, Albrecht – Faure, G. / Saint-Saens, C. / Pierne, G. / Pierne, P. / Satie, E. / Bozza, E. / Koechlin, C.
Albrecht Mayer, Karina Wisniewska
Chamber Music - Lançado por Tudor em 01/01/2002
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Baroque Christmas: Albrecht Mayer
Classical - Lançado por UME - Global Clearing House em 24/11/2022
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Lieder ohne Worte
Albrecht Mayer, Sinfonia Varsovia, Nigel Kennedy
Classical - Lançado por Deutsche Grammophon (DG) em 01/01/2003
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Song Of The Reeds
Albrecht Mayer, Markus Becker, Marie-Luise Neunecker, Tabea Zimmermann
Classical - Lançado por Decca Music Group Ltd. em 01/01/2012
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Bach Generations
Albrecht Mayer, Berliner Barock Solisten
Classical - Lançado por Deutsche Grammophon (DG) em 04/08/2023
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Mozart: Gran Adagio (Arr. Spindler for Oboe, Violin, Cello and Orchestra After Adagio from Gran Partita, K. 361/370a)
Albrecht Mayer, Daniel Sepec, Nuala Mckenna, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
Classical - Lançado por Deutsche Grammophon (DG) em 21/05/2021
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Voices of Bach
Albrecht Mayer, The English Concert
Classical - Lançado por Decca Music Group Ltd. em 01/01/2009
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Traditional: Maria durch ein Dornwald ging (Arr. Spindler for Oboe and Piano with an Improvisation by Becker) (Musical Moments)
Classical - Lançado por Deutsche Grammophon (DG) em 01/10/2021
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Frohe Weihnachten!
Anna Prohaska, Daniel Hope, Albrecht Mayer, Adoro
Classical - Lançado por Deutsche Grammophon (DG) em 01/01/2012
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Song Of The Reeds
Albrecht Mayer, Marie-Luise Neunecker, Tabea Zimmermann, Markus Becker
Classical - Lançado por Decca Music Group Ltd. em 01/01/2012
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Auf Mozarts Spuren (Online Exclusive)
Albrecht Mayer, Claudio Abbado, Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Classical - Lançado por Deutsche Grammophon (DG) em 01/01/2004
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Mozart: Works for Oboe and Orchestra / Piano (Extended Edition)
Albrecht Mayer, Vital Julian Frey, Fabian Muller, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
Classical - Lançado por Deutsche Grammophon (DG) em 09/04/2021
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Tesori d'Italia
Albrecht Mayer, Luca Pianca, Andrea Zucco, I Musici
Classical - Lançado por Deutsche Grammophon (DG) em 03/11/2017
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Elgar: Soliloquy for Oboe and Orchestra (Orch. by Gordon Jacob)
Albrecht Mayer, Bamberger Symphoniker, Jakub Hrůša
Classical - Lançado por Deutsche Grammophon (DG) em 26/04/2019
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