About Howarth
Howarth of London is a specialist woodwind instrument maker and retailer. Known all over the world as makers of the finest oboes, oboes d’amore and cors anglais, our instruments are made in our dedicated manufacturing workshops in Worthing, West Sussex.
We use high-tech CNC machinery to make precision components for our instruments which are then hand-assembled by highly experienced technicians into our beautiful instruments.
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We want to make it as easy as possible for you to hire an instrument. Our rental options allow you to have an instrument in a range of situations.
Long Term Rental
Hire an instrument while you discover about learning, without the up front cost of buying an instrument.
Short Term Rental
Hire an instrument just for a week or two in case of an emergency or for a special concert.
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Upcoming Events
Northern Lights with Joseph Swensen
April 19th 2024 at 14:00 – 15:15
Look north for luminous music from Orkney, Denmark and Finland, brought together by SCO Conductor Emeritus Joseph Swensen.
Maxwell Davies imagined the hard-fought arrival of an Orcadian spring in one of his final works, written in 2013 for the SCO, while Sibelius offers an atmospheric portrait of the underworld of Finnish mythology, whose guardian swan is sung by SCO cor anglais player Katherine Bryer.
SCO Principal Flute André Cebrián is the soloist in Neilsen’s brilliant Concerto, while Swensen offers his own rich orchestral reimagining of the same composer’s youthful First String Quartet.
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Transformed Lives
April 20th 2024 at 19:00 – 20:30
City of London Sinfonia
Alexandra Wood
DIRECTOR, VIOLIN
Emily Pailthorpe
OBOE
Webern – Langsamer Satz (Slow Movement)
Strauss arr. Iain Farrington – Concerto in D for oboe and small orchestra
Mahler – ‘Adagietto’ from Symphony No.5
Schoenberg – Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night)
Join us for a programme of heavenly music inspired by lifechanging moments in the lives of the featured composers.
We start the evening with Webern’s Slow Movement, an emotionally charged piece which was inspired by a hiking holiday outside of Vienna with Webern’s future wife. This stands in stark opposition to Strauss’s oboe concert, written after World War II when Strauss met an American veteran soldier who in civilian life was a principal oboist for the Pittsburgh Symphony.
The programme also includes Mahler’s hauntingly beautiful ‘Adagietto’ from his symphony No.5, which the composer sent to his future wife Alma instead of a love letter. The couple was engaged a month later and married within the year.
The evening culminates with Schoenberg’s Transfigured Night, based on a poem by Richard Dehmel, in which a woman tells her partner that she is pregnant with another man’s child. Criticized at the time of publication for its content, which stood in stark contrast to Viennese morals, both the poem and the piece are now celebrated works of art.
Be transformed by some of the best tunes in Classical music and enjoy a relaxing evening in the beautiful surroundings of St John’s Smith Square.
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Trio Chabrier
April 20th 2024 at 19:30 – 21:00 BST
Join Marika Lombardi, Igor Kiritchenko and Leo Debono for an evening of music including the works of Bach, Chabrier, De Falla, Beethoven, Debono, Glinka and Piazzolla.
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