Dwight Parry

Oboe

Oboist performing Strauss's lyrical Oboe Concerto with the Cincinnati Symphony.

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In short

Dwight Parry appears as oboe soloist with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in a program titled "Strauss Spectacular," featuring Richard Strauss's Oboe Concerto in D major alongside two of the composer's tone poems. Based on the directory listing, he performs as principal or featured soloist with this orchestra.

What to listen for

The centerpiece for Parry is Strauss's Oboe Concerto in D major, a piece the composer wrote late in life, in 1945, full of long, spinning melodic lines that keep the oboe singing almost continuously across three connected movements. Listeners can expect the soloist to shape phrases that arch upward and settle gently, since the concerto rewards a smooth, unbroken tone and careful breath control over flashy display. The surrounding program, Tod und Verklärung (Death and Transfiguration) and Also sprach Zarathustra, gives the same evening a much larger orchestral canvas, with sweeping strings and brass, so the oboe concerto offers a moment of intimacy and clarity between two big orchestral showpieces.

Written by OrchestraFinder, reviewed September 2026.