Wow. Thanks for sharing.

Wunderschöne live Aufführung dieses fein komponierten Quartetts im inspirierenden Tempo mit klarem Ton der Oboe und seidigen Töne der Streichinstrumente. Die intime und perfekt synchronisierte Zusammenwirkung zwischen den vier Virtuosen ist immer noch unvergleichlich. Echt tiefempfunden!

I agree that this isn't Marcel Tabuteau at his absolute best - BUT let's keep in mind that this is a live performance, and not everything goes 100% perfectly in live performance every time. Nonetheless this is a good performance - and it shows that Marcel Tabuteau still had a considerable "it" after about 45 years as an oboist and teacher in the U.S. In B.H. Haggin's "Conversations with Toscanini," the Maestro spoke of a performance of "Carmen" which he conducted at the Metropolitan Opera in the early 1910s, in which the oboe had an extraordinary, trumpet-like sound, which balanced so well in a chord with 3 trombones. And the principal oboist of the Met Orchestra at that time was Marcel Tabuteau. Thank you very much for sharing this with us!!!!! I enjoyed it as much as I did listening last night to the Ray Still/Fine Arts Quartet recording of the same piece (also recorded in the 1950s, though a few years later).

Live recordings ha! So, I'd take that reed he's using ... Nice strong stable high D's and the end of the Adagio. Almost every note on his oboe can softly disappear as easily as on open C ... Heard a couple things I need to listen for again. I need to listen to his rapid staccato tonguing articulations again. Harold Gomberg is still my all time favorite. So many wonderful oboists record this. Let's see what oboists recordings come out in the next 50 years ...

I really love his sound and vibrato, even considering this is probably 1940s recording technology.

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He taught Perry Bauman who played principal in the Toronto Symphony when my clarinet teacher Avrahm Galper played. I met and played with Perry in the final group he played in, a wonderful man, very gentle and kind - I was also fortunate to play in a concert with another peer of my teacher, since I am on the oboe theme, one Senya Trubashnik - that was Shostakovich symphony 7 (Leningrad), his solos were remarkable - he had played principal in the Moscow Philharmonic before coming to Canada.

That tone!

Adagio; the individual notes stand in place, lack dynamic forward motion.. Thus a dull and wooden pertformance. Is that vibrato I hear, or just tremelo? For all the big to do with the Tabuteau fetish for "numbered phrasing,": the Adagio was sdtrikingly lacking in "phrasing,," gesture, personality, or elegance. Perhaps he was too busy counting. I say back to Goossens, 1933, who knew how to sing.

@MrKlemps

7 ай бұрын

Maybe listen to a few Mozart operas the better to understand what MT was up to in the slow movement.

I know this is going to sound like heresy to a lot of US oboist but honestly I can't hear what all the fuss was about with Tabuteau. I know he was a hugely influential teacher and all that but when I listen I don't hear anything to write home about in the actual playing. OK, the recording technology was a bit primitive but still when compared with Goosens from the same time I don't here a definite musical personality. And I don't really hear anything terribly interesting. Here there are quite a few dull sounding notes and so so passage work.

@gallagherclarinet

6 жыл бұрын

How carefully are you listening?

@jamesfrank5271

6 жыл бұрын

It took time, but Marcel purged the snake-charmer sound from the American symphony orchestra.

@jegraham440

4 жыл бұрын

We have so little of his work to hear, and the recording is of such questionable quality, that I think it is hard to judge. What we do have to go on is reports from his contemporaries, which focused not just on his tone quality, but the amazing musicianship of his phrasing and articulation. I once had the good fortune of hearing Robert Bloom perform live, and when I listen to his recordings I am extremely disappointed that his wonderfully rich and fluid tone does not come across. From this recording what I am aware of is an extraordinary range of sound quality across the register, and a meticulous attention to articulation and phrasing. His high notes are extraordinarily strong and sweet, and in tune!--no matter what the dynamic.

@marcusjuniusbrutus7001

4 жыл бұрын

Richard Whitehouse he was better in the orchestra. Check out the Philly Orch recordings with Toscanini. You don’t really hear imagination like that anymore from orchestral oboists, certainly when it comes to tone color. But I still think this performance is as good as most you’d hear these days. If you don’t care for his playing that’s just a matter of personal taste. I love Leon Goosens also, but it’s a very different style from Tabuteau.

@nicolasbraun2642

Жыл бұрын

he was also 66 at the time of this recording