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Re: Vibrato on the clarinet?

Author: D Dow
Date: 2005-06-30 12:58

There are a number of great clarinet solos and works where vibrato is a great part of the music...

Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue is a wonderful clarinet solo where vibrato is a must to bring out the jazz feel. There are an awful lot of players in classical music who cannot do the Smear in the first bar..listen to the Kurt Mazur Leipzig recording done in the 70s...he plays the scale and then plays the conducted segment straight as a board! Just awful!

It is interesting to note a comment on the Oboe...well sometimes in orchestra the Oboe has to go without vibrato depending on the effect in the music..etc. As to the conditions vibrato is employed in wasn't there a time when everyone In the UK pretty much used it? (on clarinet).

A fine clarinet player can certainly get a clear sound with vibrato as well...Harold Wright occassionally employed vibrato and very tastefully.
.check his superb recording of the Schubert Octet. It rates as one of the very finest recordings of this work..there is also a wonderful recording of the Rhapsody Espagnole in Boston under Ozawa where the clarinets are in thirds....a lovely moment to employ a light vibrato!

Another moment which comes to mind in the classical repetoire is the wonderful solo in the Pines of Rome which I have heard done nicely with and without vibrato...

Another solo clarinet work is the Debussy First Rhapsody for Clarinet...Drucker uses a bit of vibrato and so does Sabine Meyer...
However they certain play this piece very differently from each other and as effectively as anyone....they also use quite a differently styled vibrato..Sabine tends to use a bit more than Drucker.

To vibrate or not to vibrate is the question I ask?

David Dow

Post Edited (2005-06-30 13:01)

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