Author: d-oboe
Date: 2007-01-11 18:10
I really have to agree with Nissen here.
Though Holliger does have a more strident tone he *uses* it! He is one of the few oboists on record who actually phrases, and that you can HEAR it. It's extremely obvious what Holliger is doing - there are relations right down to each single note, and they are incorporated within the larger phrasing structure. It's audible!
Many of today's n-american players apply a very intelligent system of written-in numbering (tabuteau-style), or dynamic markings in hopes that this will produce a phrase, or in some cases eliminate any possibility of phrasing "wrong"...but rarely is this ever audible to the live audience, and even less to a record-listening one.
It seems to me then, that the tone is the last thing that should even be considered. If the oboist plays a succession of smoothly attacked and perfectly round centered notes, but they have no relation to one another...what's the point?!
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