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Re: "Covered" tone?

Author: John Peacock
Date: 2018-01-13 03:22

Interesting links. I'd say you can discount the Fiorinelli one - the recording is so distant and echoey that it's hard to tell what he really sounds like. The Leister performance has his characteristic uniformity and command, but is rather limited in terms of dynamic range - surprising given that I thought the echotone effect is something that originated in the German school. I wonder if that's related to the sound? Certainly on French instruments using a too-hard reed can give you a stodgy edgeless tone that might be described as covered, but then makes it difficult to get a good pp.

Anyway, there are so many versions of Sutermeister on youtube that maybe we should replace all mention of "bright", "dark", "ping" etc. by references to a particular version of that piece.

Incidentally, I was amazed at how slow and literal almost all of these performances were. To me, it's a mercurial piece that demands big variations not only of dynamic but also of speed. I liked this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIZpsJ7JQKc

That takes 5:30. But most of them seem to be 6-7 minutes. Leister just gets under 6 minutes, but for my taste he misses the exciting character of the piece.

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