Joseph Robinson, former Principal Oboe of the New York Philharmonic shares and discusses the following six pieces of oboe music played by him: The first movement of the Sonata for Oboe and Piano by Camille Saint-Saens; The last movement of the Oboe Concerto by Josef Haydn (with the NYP conducted by Zubin Mehta in March 1987); The slow movement solo from the Violin Concerto by Johannes Brahms (with violinist Anne Sophie Mutter, Kurt Masur and the NYP); The slow movement solo from Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony (Leonard Bernstein and the NYP) ;  The dove-descending glimmer of hope in Shostakovich’s cataclysmic Symphony #5  (Leonard Bernstein and the NYP; The last movement of Walter Piston’s Suite for Oboe and Piano.