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Re: Videos of my playing on youtube

Author: Chris P
Date: 2008-01-12 16:23

Bryan, have you got Geoff Browne's book - 'The Art of Cor Anglais'?

I can thoroughly recommend it if you haven't as it carries several major cor solos from the orchestral repertoire, and an essay on each of them. There's even a chapter on European U-scrape reeds in there.

Keep up the good work, you're already making a great sound (with plenty of depth of tone from what I can hear). Would you consider specialising on cor? I know it only gets a few pieces in most concerts (though they are usually important), but I think it'll be worth your while being known as a cor specialist to be called on by orchestras to do major works with important cor parts.

Too many oboe players I know of don't want to go near cor and don't give it the time or effort it deserves (or even attempt to make a good sound), but it is a different instrument with it's own character and needs to be played in a different way to create the specific effect or mood the composer wants (though it does tend to get type-cast as being lonely, melancholy, dark, serious, etc.).

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

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