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Author: SecondTry
Date: 2023-03-23 02:15
An earlier teacher put this recording in my face and the sound imprinted on me like baby chick to mother goose as the prototype of what I wanted to sound like:
https://youtu.be/Y6bTrFNwCO0
Here are a list of some of my favorite sounding players. No cooincidence, many play double lip.
loius cahuzac (the above recording)
karl leister
jon manasse
gregory raden
corrado guffredi
harold wright
Who are your favorite sounding players?
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Author: jthole
Date: 2023-03-23 02:47
Certainly Jack Brymer and, on the other side of the spectrum, Buddy DeFranco.
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Author: Nelson
Date: 2023-03-23 05:28
An interesting question where there are so many possibilities even within my own personal 'preferences'.
In my early days of playing around the 1960s, it was Brymer all the way but jumping forward 50 or so years and hearing Karl Leister at the Madrid ICA Fest, I don'ts think I have ever heard a more beautiful *sound* than that which he produced....perhaps Viennese in its its origins.... I don't know but to me in 2015, it was the tone I held as the finest ....so smooth and rich and full ..yet somehow with focus.
Leaving the aspect of tone aside, I have great all-round admiration for Sabine who is near the top in my favourites list with a a fabulous technique and tone and hearing Julian Bliss on-line during the Covid business , his playing, drawn in part I would imagine from Sabine's mentoring, as well as his personal musicianship blew me away. The opening bars of Martins Frost's Brahms 5tet to me are haunting.
The interesting part of this question comes when we try to join several aspects of clarinetistry together to come up with players who have (or had) it all to raise them above others in our personal list of values that makes them favourites
If I may just mention (a few of) mine through the years
Draper (Outstanding)
Brymer (imo unforgettable vocalising )
McLane
Bernard Walton (Philharmonia Orch tone )
Leister (outside the recording studio)
Currently
Sabine Meyer and Ricardo Morales
Nelson
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Author: SecondTry
Date: 2023-03-24 04:01
I recently came across this chap on Youtube.
His sound is exactly that I hope to achieve.
Of course your idea of ideal sound may find you not agreeing.
And sure, it never hurts to play in a room with great reverb.
Enjoy:
https://youtu.be/Migxy_Wuj_I
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Author: ACCA
Date: 2023-03-24 12:11
Larry Combs
At his best, there is a rich quality to his sound perhaps best described as "creamy"!?
shame we don't have more recordings of him.
I recommend his orchestral excerpts recordings with commentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95LVGzW95Cc&list=RDEMEazxYGFCdE1IjghwQ1GwHQ&index=2
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Author: Gerwin
Date: 2023-03-24 22:17
Best classical sound for me is Sabine Meyer.
But for something completely different, there is nothing like Giora Feidmann. He can really speak through his clarinet with his klezmer articulation.
I just realise they both play on a German clarinet.
Post Edited (2023-03-24 22:17)
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