@@ryannamecat Yes, unfortunately there is a abusive copyright procedure (for a completely different recording) but this should be resolved in a month 🤞 !
This musician makes the serpent sound way more beautiful than people realize. If one watches demonstrations of the serpent, they realize that this instrument is challenging to make clear pitches, let alone a tone like this. Patrick Wibart makes the serpent sing in a way that looks easy, kudos to the amount of effort he made to make this challenging instrument work
For years I thought the serpent was a musical evolutionary dead-end, extinct because of it's woeful inadequacy. It was described as difficult to get a clean sound from, and overall a nightmare to play and to hear. I'm so delightful to hear so many beautiful modern performances on the hoary old beast! This one in particular was very nice, indeed.
Thank you for uploading, always a treat to hear your playing! I wonder if you would consider ever playing a 3D printed instrument? I've never heard one played by an accomplished player and it would be nice to hear how they hold up (or don't) when played by somebody of your calibre.
When you hear how other talented musicians struggle to produce such a good tone on this instrument and play in tune, it really puts it into perspective how talented Patrick Wibart is.
That is a drawback from the serpent: it is not as loud as a modern instrument, so the others have to adapt to not drown the sound from the soloist. Which is one reason why the serpent lost its use, it's very hard to play in tune and does not have the projection of modern brass instruments
Sounds fantastic! Thank you for sharing!! One complaint, though: the tricksy film production means we never see any section properly. The odd half an instrument, or the trombones through the harp strings. I'd love to be able to actually watch the whole brass section playing, and see what their various instruments are.
The music is fantastic, as the name would imply, but what I really enjoy is seeing so many period appropriate instruments! "Band Nerd" as I may be, but I love it. Thank you!
Only 2 “Fat” Trumpets, should be more than two, also 4 Trombones, 2 French Horns, with piston valves, and 2 Saxhorns, or Serpents. plus 4 Bassoons, that’s too many bassoons, and why 2 Harps? Most orchestra use one harp, and usually one bassoon.
I've seen so many people trying to play one of these and simply not being able, I genuinely thought it must be impossible. Thank you for proving me wrong, sir.
