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Re: Exceptional YouTube Channels/ Videos

Author: Tony Pay ★2017
Date: 2017-10-31 22:34

>> Do you mean by "accepting tonal characteristics" that his embouchure isn't flexible enough? >>

It's not for me to say what he needs to do technically. He doesn't hear the need for either tonal variety or tonal consistency; so the performance is, for me, what I can only describe as, 'no good'. It doesn't sufficiently represent what I take the piece to be. (The conducting doesn't help, either.)

There are many dimensions in which flexibility is required. Embouchure, tongue position, degree of support and so on all interact dynamically in real time to deliver the musical intention, especially on these instruments which are of necessity acoustically less than optimal on many notes.

I had my own go at these pieces on a 9-key Grenser copy some 25 years ago. Perhaps the most effective criticism I can offer is the recording we then made:

https://open.spotify.com/album/4JwRUgtbiDOZLKW3vzsuC8

Make of that what you will.

Tony

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