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Author: AndyW
Date: 2021-02-09 21:16
I'm wondering on the b-board's general thoughts on playing Piazzolla pieces - should I use vibrato on the clarinet ??
Thanks in advance.
-Andy-
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Author: Liquorice
Date: 2021-02-09 22:53
Piazzolla wrote a lot of music for many different kinds of instrumental groups. He was considering a career in composing "classical" music when Nadia Boulanger fortunately made him realise that his real talent lay in music influenced by Argentinian tango. His most famous music is in the style which he partly created: Tango Nuevo. If you listen to the groups that he first defined this style with, the Orquesta de Cuerdas and the Octeto Buenos Aires (and with the singer Jorge Sobral), I think you will get a clear answer to your question. Of course, as a bandoneon player himself, Piazzolla didn't use vibrato, but the vocal style of his music clearly calls for it.
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Author: seabreeze
Date: 2021-02-10 05:01
Piazzolla can sound good either way. Here's Florent Heau with little or no vibrato
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOLHl2Fwe2o.
And here's Corrado Giuffedi with quite a lot of vibrato:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv00AlUawVk.
Piazzolla, because of his birth and training, straddles the worlds of classical and popular music. Leaning on the classical side you can play it straight, and on the pop side with vibrato. For any one of his particular compositions, the choice comes down to what you prefer and are most comfortable with.
Some time before Piazzolla, Isaac Albeniz wrote a famous tango, and clarinetists usually play that one in typical classical style with no pronounced vibrato, like Paco Gill here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8vEZO2C9fM
Post Edited (2021-02-10 06:07)
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