For many years the manuscript of “Déjà vu” slumbered in the music library of oboist Hansjörg Schellenberger (former solo oboist of the Berlin Philharmonic) before it was rediscovered last year.

Ulrich Stranz composed this solo work for Oboe d’amore, the alto instrument in the oboe family, at the end of his student years in 1974 as the nucleus of his later identically named concert piece (BA06292-72). The dedicatee Hansjörg Schellenberger refers to it as a “masterwork” and “an important enrichment of the repertoire of oboists”.