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Re: Something extra in playing technique?

Author: Chris P
Date: 2008-01-03 20:07

Not oboe or even oboe related (but still well within context of this topic) I was playing bass clarinet in Butterworth's 'A Shropshire Lad', towards the end there's a bas clarinet line marked 'p' which I assumed (having never played this before) that I was part of an emsemble, so I played it p-pp only realising it was a solo. Conductor asked for more, so I gave it more.

And this is fairly common in orchestral and ensemble playing - even if the solo is only marked p or mf, you have to read it as 'soloist's p (or mf)', you will have to give it more than is written to let it come through (and the other players OUGHT to be sympathetic and not overpower anyone).

Definitely the rubato and the extra amount of vibrato (though not overdoing it), as well as your special 'solo tone' (with more intensity than your ensemble tone, but not to the point of cracking up) can be employed in these special occasions to make the solo part prominent from the underlying texture.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

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