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Author: Drenkier_1
Date: 2005-06-14 23:46
Anyone familar with Sabine Meyer? I purchased a recording of her playing the Weber Concerto's + the Weber Concertino. Just curious what any of you folks think of her playing, I personally like it a lot. But I'm soo not familar with her as a player. Would like to know more about her etc..
Kevin Collins
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Author: GBK
Date: 2005-06-14 23:58
Drenkier_1 wrote:
> Would like to know more about her etc..
You might want to start with her home page:
http://www.sabine-meyer.com/
Then, check the archives. There are more than 400 posts to read...GBK
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Author: diz
Date: 2005-06-15 01:52
She's as good as it gets really.
Without music, the world would be grey, very grey.
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Author: Tyler
Date: 2005-06-15 02:58
I think her articulation is very energetic to listen to in that when she tongues rapid passages her tongue is so light that you can barely distinguishe the articulated ones from the occasional slurred couple of notes.
-Tyler
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Author: allencole
Date: 2005-06-15 05:33
That Weber CD is dynamite! You might also check her CD with Eddie Daniels entitled "Blues for Sabine." It's mostly an Eddie vehicle, but has some excellent blending of jazz and chamber music.
Allen Cole
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Author: Bob Phillips
Date: 2005-06-15 05:36
In playing the Mozart K498 with my pianist and violist, I was asked why I tougued the series of slured triplets at the end of the first movement. I replied, "because Sabine Meyer does."
Evidently, my legato tongueing is not as smooth as hers.
Meyer plays a German clarinet and often plays with her brother.
Bob Phillips
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Author: BassetHorn
Date: 2005-06-15 05:41
Has anyone listened to her recording under the group name Trio de Clarones? How is her basset horn playing?
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Author: Ron Jr.
Date: 2005-06-15 14:37
A couple of days before hearing Sabine Meyer in concert a Carnegie hall, I heard Richard Stolzman.
I had been looking forward to his concert for several months but while I enjoyed the concert, I was not "blown away." It was a good concert.
Then I heard Sabine Meyer and she did blow me away. Her musicianship as astounding. To me her tone best represents my idea of the "Ideal" tone. Her altissimo was light and delicate. I am extremely impressed with her fantastically honed musical art.
Ron Jr.
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Author: BlockEyeDan
Date: 2005-06-15 14:41
Sigh.....am I the only one NOT enthralled by Sabine Meyer? There is something about her tone that I can't quantify, but find very off-putting. Cheers? Jeers?
Thanks all,
Dan
Post Edited (2005-06-15 14:42)
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Author: GoatTnder
Date: 2005-06-15 15:00
You may be the only one not enthralled, but you're not the only one who doesn't think she's the best. Sabine is very good, and was my favorite for a long while. Then I started collecting every clarinet recording I could find, and found several recordings I liked better than hers.
Although, her articulation is something I strive hard to recreate.
-Andy Cabrera
a.l.cabrera@gmail.com
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Author: claril
Date: 2005-06-15 15:05
BlockEyeDan, you're not the only who is not totally impressed by her playing.
I think she is very good, I use to think she was the best, until I explored more and more music to the point where you have so much.. I now do not consider her to be the best, I do agree she has flawless areas like speed (not always to her advantage as in not everything should be as fast as she takes it) and tounging.. her tounging is definetely at the top, but I would not put her in top 5..
Post Edited (2005-06-15 15:08)
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Author: ron b
Date: 2005-06-15 17:07
No one is "the best". As many of us are aware there are, rather infinite varieties. Discussing who's best is pointless. Talking about attributes you like or things you'd rather not persue personally will be much to your advantage in developing you own unique style in the years ahead.
- r![[cool]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/cool.gif) n b -
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Author: Gardini
Date: 2005-06-15 17:39
I can't wait to hear someone that plays "better." I keep listening to everything that I can get my hands on, and for now at least, she plays Mozart the way that I believe is should sound. I haven't been able to get a hold of Marcellus playing Mozart with Clevland yet. I come at clarinet playing later in life, though I have loved music all my life. I am trained as a visual artist and I can't imagine anyone arguing about who is the "best" painter. There is just too much out there that is beautiful. I don't need to try and rank Degas vs. Monet vs. Lascaux.
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Author: Ralph G
Date: 2005-06-15 17:48
Sabine is amazingly good, a true genius (and perhaps the most easy on the eyes clarinetist out there). But she's not my favorite. That's only a matter of preference, not a lack of appreciation for what she does with the instrument. Anyone who plays the clarinet would have some explaining to do as to why they don't have the utmost respect for what she can do with a clarinet.
And, Gardini, the best painter ever was Bob Ross.
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Author: LarryBocaner ★2017
Date: 2005-06-15 18:06
I heard Sabine, her brother and husband (Trio di Clarone) at the Library of Congress a couple of months ago. I was, as was the entire audience, blown away by their virtuosity and musicality. All three played basset horns as well as Bb clarinets and her husband, Rainer Wehle, played bass clarinet as well.
Some of the local clarinetists I've spoken to since were somewhat put off by her rather extreme "body English" when she was playing solos (not in the ensemble pieces). I've known wind players who resorted to gyrations when they had no clue what to do musically with phrases; not so with Ms. Meyer--the phrasing was as expressive with my eyes closed as it was when I was watching her. Hard to say who is "the World's best Clarinetist", but by any accounting she has to be in the running!
Incedentally, they performed the Mozart "Kegelstatt" trio substituting basset horn for viola; it was a revelation--exposed all sorts of musical subtleties that I'd never experienced in this piece before!
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Author: Ron Jr.
Date: 2005-06-15 20:51
Larry,
Regarding Sabine Meyer's "extreme 'body english'": the two concerts that I heard her perform I really didn't notice.
However I did once view an "extreme 'body english'" when I heard the cellist Maya Beiser perform in NYC.
http://www.mayabeiser.com/gallery.php
The performance of the Kegelstatt on Basset horn must have wonderful!
Ron Jr.
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Author: Gardini
Date: 2005-06-15 21:13
Body "English", I think that body is German. I probably shouldn't go there - young people look at this board.
here is a link - no comment
http://www.beautyinmusic.com/artist_pages/sabine_meyer_p.htm
Bob Ross ???? one of the better jokes I've seen lately.
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Author: claclaws
Date: 2005-06-16 13:24
Wish Sabine could EVER perform in this part of the world...
-On behalf of many Asian fans...
Lucy Lee Jang
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Author: Bob Phillips
Date: 2005-06-16 21:05
If you are interested in Meyer's Trio Clairone, the EMI LC0110 set of three CDs features them in some of Mozart's Basset horn stuff.
I think its wonderful.
In the Divertimento no. 5 KV439b, two clarinets are added to the basset horn trio.
This set also has the Kegelstaat. I've just returned from spending 2-hours working on it and can't express (sorry) how much respect I have for Sabine Meyer's phrasing in this performance. Its a good thing that I don't embarass too easily.
Also, the Mozart Clarinet Quintet. With Sabine at the reed, you can't even tell its challenging to play (and to blend with the strings).
Bob Phillips
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