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Author: weixiong369
Date: 2010-07-29 05:12
hey guys, this is my new video recording of a concert with the italian bolzano Haydn orchestra, made couple mistakes..especially a huge slip in the first movement..anyways hope you'll like it..
Weixiong
1st movement- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQj3wg7GAFA&feature=related
2nd movement- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMdVLxgWH-A&feature=related
3rd movement- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgD8bwmN5Ec&feature=related
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Author: JamesOrlandoGarcia
Date: 2010-07-29 19:36
Good concept of sound throughout the whole performance. I find this to be an issue with a lot of people who play is that they lack the concept of tonal color and consistency.
It's really a very good recording. I only thing that crossed my mind is that there was a consistent dynamic of mp through out the entire performance. Perhaps you felt or perceived yourself as playing the dynamics but they didn't translate enough to the recording. You have to do more. It should feel strenuous and outside your comfort zone to bring out those Fortes and stunningly dark and effective pianos.
I really enjoyed your performance overall, bravo!
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Author: Tony Pay ★2017
Date: 2010-07-29 20:47
Well, it's very good. I listened to all of it, which is rare for me with the Mozart.
Your instinctive understanding of tonecolour is excellent: what you do always sounds both simple and natural. That's rare, in my experience. And how you begin is always clear: also unusual.
At the moment, I just want to say two things. Your articulation sometimes divides a bar into bits that are too small. For example, you slur 'two and tongue two' semiquavers in a bar that wants to be 'in two'. That pushes the bar, distractingly, towards being heard in four.
Of course, much of Mozart's musical argument relies on his varied use of rhythmic subdivision. For example, roughly, though a more detailed discussion is required:
Bar 141 is in 2
Bar 142 is in 1
Bars 143-144 are in 'normal' 4
Bars 145-147 are in unequally divided 2, approximating 1
Bars 148-149 are suddenly in equally-divided 8! (as your performance articulation recognises, bravo:-)
Bars 150-151 are in equally-divided 2
Bar 152 is in equally-divided 4
Bar 153 is in equally divided 8 (or even 16!)
Have a think about that.
The other thing is that, for my money, you could more clearly inhabit different personalities in some of the more operatic passages; for example, in bars 115-123 of the first movement.
I wrote somewhere about this:
"Mozart has already called our attention to the idée fixe of the work -- namely the number three. In addition to his ubiquitous three-note figures, this is instanced by the falling or rising third, and by the use of that third in both legato and staccato form. (It's amusing to note the two fragmentary versions that appear in the violas at the end of bar 2 of the solo entry, and in the cellos at the end of bar 4.)
"The passage in question juxtaposes the falling, filled-in G/E third (notated pitch) in the clarinet register with the separated EGE three note quaver phrase in the chalumeau register, followed a bar later by the G/E third in separated crotchets.
"It's as though a female character is pleading with a male character -- perhaps a young woman trying to win her stubborn brother round to her choice of partner? (They're brother and sister because they both belong to the 'Three' family, you see:-)
"First we have the female, cajoling legato version of the falling third, leading to a version of the clarinet's second theme; which is answered definitely -- I'd say in the negative -- by the male version, separated, two octaves lower. She tries again, only to receive the same answer. This provokes an outburst, first diatonic triplets leading to a reiteration of the third a fourth higher (C/A), then chromatic triplets, and then semiquavers, all leading to C/A, and finally to C/A/F# in the pause bar. A woman in love will have her way!"
Anyway, very well done.
Tony
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Author: weixiong369
Date: 2010-07-29 21:03
Thank you very much for your suggestions, i'll definately watch out the issue! i think part of the reason is because this is a broadcasting version recording so the compression ratio on the akg414 mic front of me is really high, i think they probably made it 4:1. so everything sounds so flat..
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