Gabriels Oboe - Which version?

[Thomk]

I am in the process of trying to decide on these versions of Morricone's beautiful track originally from "The Mission". I've taken the liberty of selecting the best versions in IMHO:

My favourite orchestral version played on the oboe. Yeon-Hee Kwak's breath control is unearthly

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmax47l2hLU

My favourite "Nella Fantasia" version. Sarah Brightman is not everyone's cup of tea, neither is she mine usually, but I cannot find a more perfect version than this

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UjFnL8Fphs

My favourite cello version played by the promising Yo Yo Ma

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jSotUeV0WI

The wildcard - A version by Carlos Nunez played on the Galician Bagpipe

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNYmIGIOr5c

 

[Mo1959]

Definitely the first for me. Gave me goose bumps, but I also enjoyed the bagpipe version.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I'm really cross with Morricone at the moment, I booked tickets to see him conduct an orchestra playing his film music and he's gone and cancelled it due to ill health the selfish swine.

 

[Thomk]

I'm really cross with Morricone at the moment, I booked tickets to see him conduct an orchestra playing his film music and he's gone and cancelled it due to ill health the selfish swine.

I was also going (to Birmingham) but was aware of his ill health so was not holding my breath (unlike Yeon-Hee Kwak who appears to be able to hold her breath at will).

 

[Spinney]

First one - on the oboe. Lovely tune!

 

[EltonFrog]

I've heard a rumour that @Fnaar 's friend Ms Goodbody is a virtuoso on the pink oboe.

 

[srw]

Yo-yo Ma - promising upcoming unknown? You what?

 

[ScotiaLass]

The first.
I used this version for my HND presentation as it was a great fit for the subject (the preisthood).
I sent it to the priest who had helped me, and he told me he cried....I like to think it was the photos but I'm pretty sure it was the music

 

[Thomk]

Yo-yo Ma - promising upcoming unknown? You what?

 

[subaqua]

[QUOTE 3406084, member: 45"]Fnarr's.[/QUOTE]
I had exactly the same thought.

No prizes for guessing the colour

 

[fimm]

Keep in mind I'm listening on headphones so hear everything - the orchestral oboe playing is as I would expect from a professional - I was wondering if she was doing that circular breathing thing, but I can hear her breathing.
I'd never heard the vocal version before - Sarah Brightman's voice is a bit light in it for my taste, I wonder what a more operatically trained voice would sound like (possibly over the top...)
I got bored with Yo Yo Ma - and I can hear him breathing too!
The bagpipes are nice, and different...

 

[vickster]

Keep in mind I'm listening on headphones so hear everything - the orchestral oboe playing is as I would expect from a professional - I was wondering if she was doing that circular breathing thing, but I can hear her breathing.

..

She? on the oboe...has a fine beard for a lady

I like the oboe, not keen on the twangy background music on the Sarah Brightman one!

 

[fimm]

I wasn't looking at the pictures - but the poll says "she"...?

And I agree about the thing that sounds like a harpsichord on the Sarah Brightman - it sounds like it has just been added to the original version - why?

 

[vickster]

Oh my bad, I seem to have been linked to a dude playing it called Henrik Chaim! Apologies

I like the woman more now I'm listening to the right one!

 

[Thomk]

Oh my bad, I seem to have been linked to a dude playing it called Henrik Chaim! Apologies

I like the woman more now I'm listening to the right one!

Listening to Chaim first just prepares you for how good Yeon-Hee Kwak is.