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Re: Some beautiful playing

Author: Liquorice
Date: 2016-06-23 01:56

dorjepismo- Andreas Ottensamer isn't playing on the same make of clarinet that Leister used.

However, I don't believe that the projection issue in this recording has to do with the model of clarinet.

A couple of years ago I heard Andreas's brother Daniel play a recital in Vienna. Whenever the pianist played anything louder than mezzoforte you couldn't hear the clarinet anymore. The clarinet sound was smooth, dark and pretty, but just didn't project, even into the small hall of the Musikverien. There were several Austrian clarinet players at the concert, so I asked in the intermission whether this muffled sound was typical of the current Viennese style. With disdain one of them answered: "No. The problem is the plastic reeds".

I believe this could be part of the problem here too. His sound (except in the very high register) just doesn't cut through. This is a typical disadvantage of the current fad of trying to get a "super dark sound" using a Kuckmeier/Legere combination. I don't think that if he played with loads of vibrato it would make a shred of difference to the lack of projection.

Tony's observation about "creeping in" is obviously also part of the problem.

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