Author: cjwright
Date: 2007-01-09 22:46
Susan, Yeah, I think it's that oboe concertos that we're talking about, particularly the strauss recording. Glad you were able to dig it up. And ElViz, that quartet recording is one of the later Crystal Recordings, where he still sounds great.
Yes, I wouldn't go so far to say Still sounded anything like Holliger (the-freshman-in concert-band-playing-on-a-bad-selmer-tone), but he doesn't sound the darkness of Mack (who was so dark it was rather inflexible, and thus his Mozart neer sounded Mozartish to me). Perhaps we're talking differently, but I think Still's tone is very lively and flexible, which is what made his playing so original and musical.
Regarding Lucarelli, one of my former teachers, a close friend with Lucarelli, upon hearing me express great delight at one of Bert's recordings, responded, "I would be a big Lucarelli fan too... if he really sounded like that." with a half-puzzled look on his face. I suppose the implication was that he digitally changed his sound beyond recognition on his recordings.
From everything I know, I dare say Nicholas Daniels and Gordon Hunt are the real thing. I know several American oboists who love Daniels' playing the most, over any American oboist.
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