Author: Jarmo Hyvakko
Date: 2022-12-30 12:53
Ruben!
Me too, no one ever taught vibrato for me either. I have learned to make it with my lips, feel that i get the best sounding one with that technique. And i am using it sparingly in suitable places.
And before this conversation becomes even more polarized, i say that in my previous post i just tried to make one possible thread to understand how vibrato has become controversial. And still doesn't belong to german-austrian style. And, let's be honest, german-austrian style is one corner stone of all classical music.
We all know the style Reginald Kell started. We also now that old french masters, Lancelot, Delecluse (who i had once chance to hear live) and others used this quite particular fast vibrato, a trade mark of french clarinet players during their time. In my ears that sounded quite clearly a lip vibrato. So vibrato is not and has never been a taboo.
In singing, vibrato seems to be a very physical and personal thing. In classical genre you quite seldom hear a singer that variates (is able to variate?) her vibrato very much. So it seems to be quite connected with support in classical singing technique. And boy, that can be occasionally disturbing. It would be delightful to hear that famous duet from Delibes' Lakhme even once with no, or at least minimal amount of, vibrato. And those vibrato competitions in operas, usually called quartets and quintets...
By the way, among singers, the period music singers often seem to be very able to variate their vibrato.
Jarmo Hyvakko, Principal Clarinet, Tampere Philharmonic, Finland
Post Edited (2022-12-30 12:58)
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