Author: HautboisJJ
Date: 2011-03-23 00:55
Thank you for listening guys!
There is a common thread between everyone's comments - that obviously means that everyone is right! I think i know what to work on next!
To answer your questions, the oboe piece is Britten's Temporal Variations, yes, it's the one i played in Kelly's master class some months ago. The english horn piece is Koechlin's Au Loin. After recording one realizes how horrendously difficult it is to produce dynamic variation, one thinks that one has done it, but when you hear the playback....haha!
My oboe is a Buffet Greenline, although it's not a pure Greenline so to say. It has been worked on by a respectable instrument maker/repairer based in the UK. The english horn i played on was made by this very same person, owned by my school of course, ha. And it is from this recording that i now realize what the intonation tendencies seem to be. (I play it way too much like my oboe, wrong wrong wrong!)
Robin, the reed i had was a bit of a flat G's and C's scenario....perhaps i made it a little too light, and still at the end it was not light enough for the soft entries you mentioned in Britten's 8 minute point. Difficult.... practice, that's what i need! Was a tad disappointed when i first heard the english horn record, most people actually think that i am an english horn person but i obviously did not make it sound like that! I like Mark's comments on how the end of phrases can be more free, i think especially for the Koechlin.
Today i will do a run through of my complete recital program in my school concert hall (these 2 pieces are only part of it....hope i get through them alive...) and will try to get it on record as well. Thanks again for everyone's advice, really useful, all of them true i think. I might need it again!
Regards,
Howard
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