Author: Bobo
Date: 2007-05-22 03:04
There was an article in IDRS a couple of years ago on de Lancie's initial inspiration for the Stauss Concerto and his later recording of it (much later)...interestingly, on the issue of circular breathing and de Lancie's substitution of other instruments to give the oboist a breathing break, the author, a de Lancie student, says, "de Lancie's approach to oboe explicitly eschews circular breathing", and calls circular breathing "inherently unmusical".
Furthermore, in a footnote:
'With specific reference to the Strauss Concerto, Leon Gossens makes the same point: "oboe playing sounds unnatural and artificial if phrasing-through-breathing is absent from performance."...oboist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Alfred Genovese, recalled the words of his (and John de Lancie's) teacher, Marcel Tabuteau: "I can see you don't have to breathe, but breathe anyway; that's what creates the phrase." '
In the case of the Strauss, I don't agree that using circular breathing is inherently unmusical (just listen to Klein), but there is nothing wrong with de Lancie's approach either...it's beautiful too. But in any case, the fact that there was such resistance to circular breathing by a major branch (trunk?) of the American oboe school shows you it's by no means a basic technique fundamental to playing the oboe.
Post Edited (2007-05-22 03:22)
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