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Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2025-07-02 02:19
Recently there was an interesting thread about people's favorite non-clarinet instruments. That introduced me to pedal steel guitar and led to other fruitful online explorations.
Similarly, who are your favorite non-clarinet musicians? Besides great clarinetists, who's performances have inspired you? What have you learned from listening to them? Links if you can, please.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xyfPrdLvec
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2025-07-02 15:50
Heinz Holliger is without a doubt my favourite oboist.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
Independent Woodwind Repair Specialist
Oboes, Clarinets and Saxes
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Author: Nelson
Date: 2025-07-02 16:39
Here are a few who, in my humble opinion , are incomparable.
Jascha Heifetz: Will there ever be another like this wonderful musician
Richard Tauber: A stylist of the first order and even today should be
listed up there with the greatest.... even though styles have
changed so much.
If I may suggest a compeer/organist
J S Bach there are not enough superlatives to describe the perfection
that he achieved.
Another thought
Stephen Sondheim I've done a lot of shows but marvel at the colours in this
man's palette . It amazes me the way he could change the very
*heart* (can't think of another description) of the music's
charactering from show to show right up to 'Passion'
Paul Robeson An artist with so much presence He could reach out to so
many people.
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Author: clarnibass
Date: 2025-07-03 08:56
A few examples in no particular order...
Jean-Luc Cappozzo
Evan Parker
Hiatus Kaiyote
Bjork
Knower
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Author: Luuk
Date: 2025-07-03 14:22
Any renowned string quartet.
Regards,
Luuk
Philharmonie Brainport
The Netherlands
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Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2025-07-03 15:34
Heinz Hollinger is also on my list. Phrasing, dynamics, articulation . . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSQhhAiraxQ
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2025-07-03 16:13
Philip Caron wrote:
"Heinz Hollinger is also on my list. Phrasing, dynamics, articulation . . . ."
And then he goes and plays oboe d'amore ...
https://youtu.be/4lqeqpSTbNQ?si=ItMgVKaX6BSD2_vU
I'm not crying - you're crying.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
Independent Woodwind Repair Specialist
Oboes, Clarinets and Saxes
NOT A MEMBER OF N.A.M.I.R.
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: RefacerMan
Date: 2025-07-03 17:49
Danish recorder virtuoso Michala Petri and violin virtuoso Hillary Hahn. Both women are just incredible musicians.
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Author: Fuzzy
Date: 2025-07-05 04:53
Great topic...too many to mention, so I'll start off with Peggy Lee.
Phrasing. Fluid phrasing over the chord changes. Mood matches the background and song.
If you try to play along, you'll find all sorts of restructuring of the melodic timing all along the way. Delays where notes would have been, or notes smack dab where they should be. All stretched and woven into a beautiful work. (Listen to how far away the melody gets at times from the beats emphasized by the bass and guitar...sometimes earlier, sometimes later. You really feel it when you try to play along with her - she changes it each time.)
Where or When (starting at pickups into the vocal)
Full version
Fuzzy
;^)>>>
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Author: m1964
Date: 2025-07-05 08:50
GenericClarinet129
"...Bernard Greenhouse remains unparalleled in the field of cello."
I thought it was Rastropovich. Google says it was Pablo Casals.
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Author: ruben
Date: 2025-07-05 10:27
Generic: I heard Bernard Greenhouse often with the Beaux Arts trio here in Paris: a wonderful cellist and lovely person. It's nice that you mention him.
rubengreenbergparisfrance@gmail.com
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Author: ACCA
Date: 2025-07-05 12:40
Mark Knopfler.
Paul Desmond.
there. I've said it!
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Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2025-07-05 15:03
Heifetz has been on my list for a long time. When his Bach Sonatas & Partitas came out, critics called it dry, which baffled me. Yes, it was fast and technically impeccable, and at that time and still now I admire those things greatly and aspire to them. But Bach's incredible music was in Heifetz's hands illuminated and brought to my ears with a clarity and power I hadn't heard before. Yes, there are other different and magnificent recordings of these pieces, but Heifetz is up there.
Here he is later in life: imagine the power of control behind the apparent ease, and the ability to make expensive choices at will.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhOaS_Cy8_8
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Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2025-07-05 15:39
Hi Chris. Youtube tells me that video of BWV 1053R you linked is not available. A search finds a recording of the same piece, again with Holliger on oboe d'amore, but only the first movement.
So, after that one I made do with a full recording of 1055R. What stands out, as it does for all great performers, is the density of expression, such that every part of every note is done a certain timed way, so the whole work sounds alive, like you were listening to or even intimately touching some marvelous, beautiful, turned-on creature. All the detail is tastefully scaled so that little things don't strike you in the face, but they're right there contributing to the whole whether you notice them to your delight or simply feel their effect.
Reverse accent is a thing! Crescendoing up a scale but then unexpectedly playing the top note hushed, which Holliger did in 1055R's middle movement, can sound like a revelation . . . . if it's well situated and perfectly executed.
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Author: donald
Date: 2025-07-07 18:19
I'm going to twist the OP slightly to make it "non clarinettist musicians who have influenced me".
Yuri Bashmet has been my model for what I'd call "expressive classical performance within boundaries of taste/style"
David Gilmour was inspiring and formative for me, listening to a soloist and improviser who used sound and timbre to be expressive, rather than just "shredding" with technical passages. Oddly, looking back on many performances of contemporary music (where we imagine the whole job is just following intricate instruction, but it really should involve much more than that) I can see how DG's "expressive model" helped me be more than another idiot note factory despite him being a rock/pop performer.
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Author: Rocky Beach
Date: 2025-07-07 23:19
Listening to Bill Evans the jazz pianist. I just love his style of playing.
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Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2025-07-09 05:39
Thanks for the mention of Richard Tauber. Example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nKY8VQlnxg
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Author: ruben
Date: 2025-07-09 08:57
The German tenor Fritz Wunderlich. He died accidentally when he was in his thirties. He started out as a horn player and this must have helped his amazing phrasing and breath control.
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