Author: vboboe
Date: 2007-01-13 20:06
LOVE this thread, learned LOTS, linked to super sound sample clip site (still in infancy), thanks everybody!
Finally able to spend some time Friday eve listening to all the clips presently on oboesoundgallery -- wow, what a feast! Like others who hope there'll be more samples from elsewhere in world eventually, i hope to see red-blooded maple leaf Canadians included soon
it's been very, very helpful to get collection of oboist names like this in one place with sound samples, now i've identified several worth looking for recordings to develop own personal collection. Some reactionary comments to 'first time heard & know who it actually is' below -- these caught my attention more than others, in alpha not preference order
AMERICANS
DeLancie - agree with other comments, definitely rings & sings his oboe
Klein - oboe singer, more like smooth brandy
Lucarelli - very 'golden', other pieces i've heard by him, similar colour
Roseman - someone i'll be listening more for
Vogel - evocative, wonderful Britten piece, very free & open
BRITS
Blake, Daniels - clear & bright tone, refreshing like pure spring water
Boyd - interesting reed differences in those particular clips
Goosens - immediate goosebumps, emotive, feel connected, recognize (former Brit heard his playing then unawares in childhood)
Messiter - amazing tonal samples there, splendid
FRENCH
need more samples, haven't decided anything about Leleux
GERMANS
Koch - Mozart most playful, yes, enjoyed & chuckled
Mayer & Schellenberger - delightful oboe singers, more familiar M than S
OTHER EUROPEANS
Lencses - floats, lends itself agreeably to disengagement from mundane
Nielsen (Dane) - very nice reed on that recording
DOWN UNDER
Doherty - much enjoyed Blues for DD
First impressions on the down side for me personally, various reasons, not cast in stone final judgement based on such short & few samples
Bloom - airy & hollow on that recording
Gomberg - tonguing too crisp & Mozart not playful enough
Holliger - fresh breezy outdoor tone unsettling, not soothing (and at end of workday i need soothing)
Hunt - uh, is that an alto sax? Oh, it's oboe (higher notes)
Indermuhle - psychologically disturbing, very fenced in
Mack - Scheherazade phrasing unexpected, some slurs disliked
Robinson - that sound mix was treacle
Rothwell - bleaty, disappointed thought she'd sound better than that
Still - swamped by the strings
Tabuteau - poor recordings too high in treble, solo rehearsal interesting but too short
As for many of you folks' other faves not mentioned, you folks eloquently expressed already and i've not arrived at own conclusions, inadequate listening exposure just yet
My very first oboe specific recordings in my renewbie oboe phase are of late Camden Albinoni Concerti & Adagios (soothing), but now i've identified several other oboists worth collecting, keep oboesoundgallery growing, OK?
AWESOME THREAD :-)
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