From one oboist who's recorded this to another, major props on the additions to the repeats and everything it took to make it work in D Minor (I transposed it to E Minor out of pragmatic laziness).
Fantástico. Meus parabéns. Assisti sua apresentação no Teatro Guaíra/Curitiba nos idos de 1978-79 no solo de oboé da peça BWV 1060 de J.S. Bach ( Se não me engano com a Camerata Antiqua de Curitiba) e desde lá já era um exímio virtuose deste maravilhoso instrumento. Sem dúvidas, uma honra para o Brasil termos um músico de sua qualidade, talento e profissionalismo.
Ok. We know that "the impossible" has been indeed "tamed". Once and for all. You defeated "the final boss" of oboe-playing - a feat most probably nobody before you had ever achieved. All hail Alex Klein! 👏👏👏
It is. As I explained in the Facebook post that accompanies this link, there are two pre-requisites for playing this Caprice on oboe: 1) a soft, gentle, stable reed, and 2) an oboe that plays in tune both with primary and alternative fingerings. Endurance is not really an issue. This Caprice lasts about 2:40, which is much less than Le Api (3 min. at composer's tempo and about 4 minutes in performance), and there is an entire bar of rest to regroup in the middle, plus several other places to stop and breathe and many friendly spots for circular breathing. Of course there are lots of fingering issues, but there are many pieces in the regular oboe repertory which are faster than this (Mozart Quartet and Ravel's Tombeau come to mind). It's just a matter of practicing and applying a healthy methodology to it. Again, the big issues are really the reed and the oboe. The benefit from learning it is, of course, that this knowledge of reed, oboe, resilience and accomplishment can then be readily applied to everything else we play. Thank you for the question.
@@KeaneSouthard you are correct in that the lowest note on a "standard oboe" is B-flat. However, a few colleagues and I asked the manufacturer (F. Lorée) to make us an oboe with an extension to "A" so we ca expand the repertory.
If CERN and NASA only knew that the answers to the discovery of a metal alloy that could withstand the temperature of trillions of degrees Kelvin from the brutal acceleration of such materials colliding at 99.9% of the speed of light without being utterly disintegrated are, without a doubt found in Alex Klein's Oboe keys. If they could successfully reverse engineer such a miraculous alloy, it could launch the human race 5000 years forward in space travelling technology. Bravo maestro, inspirational as always.
