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Author: Katfish
Date: 2002-08-09 15:04
We talk alot about dark clarinet tone, but it is by nature rather subjective, i.e. everyone has their own concept. I would be interested to know who, among professionals, exemplifies "dark tone" and more interesting yet "bright tone". I know this is rather general but do with it what you can.
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Author: Keith Ferguson
Date: 2002-08-09 16:39
IMHO, "Dark"= Emma Johnson and James Campbell, and "Bright" = Eddie Daniels (on his Vivaldi's "Five Seasons" CD). OK, I'll duck now.
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Author: Jim S.
Date: 2002-08-09 17:25
I once heard a recording of Simeon Bellison. It was the darkest (maybe fuzziest would be the better word) clarinet sound I had ever heard, as I recall. Maybe it was just a bad recording or I had bad ears that day.
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Author: LaLa
Date: 2002-08-09 21:22
Dark: Karl Leister, Eduard Brunner, and Sabine Meyer (if you can't tell i'm hitting the german school up big time for this one)
Bright (and equally as beautiful): Guy DePlus and Paul Meyer
However my favorites of all tend to be those who fall somewhere right in the middle, not to dark not to bright, but IMHO just right:
Harold Wright, Robert Marcellus, Scott Andrews, Anthony McGill, Jon Manasse, Ethan Sloane...
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Author: Dan
Date: 2002-08-11 00:03
I would say that for dark sounds you have Frank Cohen, Ted Oien, Laura Ardan, David Shifrin, Andrew Marriner, Jim Kanter, Bob Crowley and sometimes Michelle Zukovsky; very tasteful players.
On the bright end, you have Harold Wright, Stanley Drucker, Richard Hauwley, Greg Raiden, Anthony McGill, Anthony Gigliotti, Michael Rusenik, Richard Stoltzman, to name some; tasteful? that is up to the listener. I for one loathe bright sounding clarinetists.
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Author: LaLa
Date: 2002-08-11 00:48
Dan just an observation on my part but your list of Bright players seem to be primarily Curtis graduates... i wonder if that says anything about their general school of woodwind playing...
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Author: David Dow
Date: 2002-08-12 01:10
Dark players Karl leister, Larry Coombs, Pascal Moragues, Andrew Marriner, Gerde Starke, Herbert Stahr, Else Ludwig Vedhr, Frank West, David Glazer, Michelle Zukovsky, David Shifrin, Sabine Meyer, Alfred Prinz, Wenzell Fuchs, Ole schill, martin Frost, Roland Diry(Ensemble Modern, colonne), Alessandro Carbonnare, of course just an opinion. Brighter sounds: guy Dangain, Guy Desplus, Michel Arringnon, Paul Meyer, richard Stoltzman, Stan Drucker, Jack Brymer, Roman Guyot, John McCaw. Of course these are all extraordinarty artists!
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Author: fairus
Date: 2002-08-12 04:12
THE most beautiful dark tone clarinettist would be Karl leister, Joseph Balogh, Alfred Prinz,Jost Micheals, Jonathan Cohler, Jack Brymer whereas the bright tone clarinettist are gervase de peyer, {does have reasonable dark beautiful tone } Walter Boeykens,Eddie Daniel,Sabine Meyer, Paul meyer,Reginall Kell, Federick Thurston, Henri Lefebvre Harold right,Stanley Drucker. I totally disagree the stereotypical notion that all all german clarinettist have dark tones while other clarinettist have bright tone!!Larry Combs have dark clarinet tone as he was actually using Herbert Wurlitzers German clarinet and not the boehm leblanc clarinet probably!!!!!
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