Author: Jryanaus
Date: 2006-09-05 00:33
It really depends what you mean by "mess up".
Minor errors generally take place in every live performance of any class of orchestras or soloist, it's one of the pleasures of live concerts, it can also be a frustrating factor, when the horns split that note AGAIN but it what makes them human afterall!
It is noted amongst flautists that emmanuel Pahud of the Berlin Philharmonic, in his 2nd audition for principal flute, botched up the opening of the Daphnis et Chloe 2nd suite solo but he's such a musician in his own class that it didn't matter.
I recently listened to a live Francois Leleux recital of unaccompanied oboe works and it is absolutely exquisite, a jaw-dropping display, some 70 minutes of C.P.E. Bach, Britten, Berio, Telemann and Silvestrini, and there was one note that just didn't quite speak in one of the Silvestrini's which was just as hard to believe as the flawlessness of his playing, nevertheless it was just a reminder that it hadn't been edited and really a delight.
There is a great story about the late Jiri Tancibudek (forgive my spelling!) the dedicatee of the Martinu Oboe concerto that was relayed at the 2004 IDRS conference in the late 50's he had a live broadcast of the concerto and played the opening phrase, was utterly dissatisfied as he had "messed up" as it were, walked offstage got a different reed and re-commenced.
Funnily enough at that conference there were 2 performances when one almost expected mistakes to emerge but they didn't, the first was Dielthelm Jonas, the wonderful German oboist who's oboe was cracked and played on someone else's buffet, the Holliger sonata!! and the other was the fine Australian Diana Doherty who played the Bach g minor 1030 sonata and a minute into the last movement realised her reed was split... At the pause into the last section she turned her reed round to the other side and finished the piece off in grand style!
Apologies for the long post but the last thing i'd do is, if you enjoy anecdotes of mistakes or just anecdotes in general of oboists read a "a reed blown in the wind" by Marion Whittow with wonderful cartoons by Puffet.
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