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Vibrato question.

Author: Chris Ondaatje
Date: 2001-03-15 08:57

I was looking through the Klarinet Archives the other day, fasinating reading but there seems to be a fair degree of ego-based angst among some of the writers. I came across an article written by Jonathon Cohler. He seems to be well informed and very confident in the validity of his assersions. He mentioned the anecdotal evidence of Mulfeld playing with vibrato for the works of Brahms(mentioned in the Jack Brymer Book). He also claimed the Charles Neidlich had some evidence that vibrato(I assume they were talking about on the Clarinet) was used at the time of Mozart. The ubiquitous but interesting Dan Leeson turned up and claimed we should be improvising, ornamenting and playing with vibrato.
This confused me a little as friends who have studied early music, singers and string players, say they try to use less vibrato then when they perform Romantic period music.
For the record I don't use vibrato myself (except for Rhapsody in Blue etc..) but I do enjoy the playing of some players who do.
Does anyone have any evidence of the use of vibrato in Classical and Romantic period playing.
Thanks Chris.

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