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Re: Poulenc oboe sonata

Author: HautboisJJ
Date: 2011-07-08 08:58

Glad you like the Poulenc, it's beautiful beautiful music. There is a wonderful and amazing recording of Francois Leleux on Sony thay you will enjoy thoroughly if you can find it. That speed in the 2nd movement!!!!! And all the breathtaking phrasing in the 1st and 3rd movements. Also one of the rare recordings where you can actually hear dynamics!

1.

I know exactly what you mean. My advise is, don't compensate the downward slur. Just move your fingers and change nothing else! (don't loosen your embouchure, don't change the breath) Fundamentally simple, but we seem to assume that oboes can't do that well when actually good instruments nowadays allow it much more than we think. It also makes it more musical. Also, when it is fast enough, there will be less of that annoying donkey effect.

2.

Have you tried the "standard" long fingerings?

h = half hole

with half or without half (i prefer without and set my oboe to play without)

D# oxx|oxx +low B +1st oct
E oxx|oxx +low B +1st oct +right hand G# +right hand Eb

Not sure whether your instrument allows it but my method is:

D#
oxx|ooo + 3rd oct

E
hxo|ooo + 3rd oct

Both with low C key if too sharp. My half hole plate is waxed though so perhaps that, together with the height of the half hole plate as well as the 3rd octave key will affect whether this will work. Good luck!

Howard

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