Carnegie Hall Bassoon Master Class: Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4 

Lol listen to him talking is like getting an ASMR session

+Noemis Smith Nah I don't appreciate that. If the master is playing more poorly than the student and hes not super old and disabled then something is seriously wrong.

+Smood47 I would agree with you if the instructor was playing a lot worse than the student. Well maybe one day if you are in that kind of situation you'd understand, untill then everyone is in title of their opinion.

Smood47 teaching is more about knowledge and knowing how to communicate that. It's not about being the better player.

true but its still discouraging if the teacher is playing worse

I'm completely convinced Schweigert was just having a bad reed day, which is kind of the bane of a wind player's existence

Yeah I think it is looks differently sometimes for people. Cuz like when it comes to athletic sports do you have a limited amount of time until your body starts to break down, often the other coach can't go show you how to do a spinning slam dunk. But with like classical music it's sort of required that you're better than the student, or what I mean is 99% of the time the teacher plays way better than student

You said the opposite of what better than the teacher means

Do you mean by that that the student plays more beautiful or better than Stefan Schweigert?

@@Peter-gr8fj yeah i agree, playing with a more beautiful sound doesn't mean playing better

WoodwindRevolution yeah, but as I'm writing this I think he is resigning as they listed a position

DELXAC TVV Nope, he's still there playing 2nd. The position is for Associate Principal, recently vacated by Catherine Chen who is now playing Principal in Milwaukee.

fasteddie4145 the heck???

Wait what?

lmao

What do you mean? Vibrato?

Vibrato. It's a vibration of the sound slightly out of tune and back to the original pitch. If you watch a string player, you can visually see the vibrato from them vibrating the string. Wind players typically use their diaphragm to create vibrato.

Vibrato in the bassoon is usually amplitude / pulsation vibrato, quick alternances of quiet and louder sounds. Unlike the violin and the saxophone which use pitch vibrato.

+Baron Young wow!

Probably a Heckel...

Either a heckle or a Fox

Heckel and Mor Biron's is a Heckel also

cyndie26 he is just teaching the younger man. So he is not emphasising his tone but his point, this is showen by his numerous appereces in wind symphonies. There is a new post that showed this very well in the comment section, it was at the top at the time of me posting this. Hope this helps

I actually preferred his sound. It is more like a human singing at a whisper volume. But I’m a clarinetist so what do I know? Idk if it’s the same with bassoon, but with clarinet the fuzzy stuff is what really projects. My teacher, Michele Zukovsky (former principal of the LA Phil) taught me this. Her sound was small and pretty up close but absolutely luscious and beautiful in the Walt Disney Concert hall.

The performer was on the right, and the instructor was on the left. It's a masterclass, so a student will play an excerpt of something in front of a live audience, and then the teacher will give immediate feedback to help the student grow. So it's all for the benefit of the student/audience receiving the wisdom of the instructor. So, for a performance based event, the performer (one on right) naturally would be warmed up, while the instructor wouldn't really be warmed up at all. In fact you see him take his reed out and pretty much go straight into playing the excerpt cold. Also, his sound was maybe "weaker" sounding to you, but his tone was better. It was "tighter" and the sound wasn't dispersing as much as the students. Also, the instructor sounded better in tune with himself than the student to me. You can really hear the pitch drop at the end of the first portion of the excerpt the first time he plays it, and when he descends from the C-F which is one of the first giant leaps, the f goes flat. Also keep in mind the dynamic of the excerpt is piano, so naturally people would undersupport the sound, but you need to push more air to make the pitch stay closer to in tune. A sharp pitch will sound much better psychoacoustically than a flat pitch.

Stefan Schweigert (the instructor) plays in Berlin phil, which tunes higher than American standards. As for tone, it’s really a personal thing. I find that despite his “breathiness” his tone sings through the instrument while the student has more of a textbook bassoon sound. Both are fantastic players on their own right.

@@fernie51296 can you say that again? You said it's the fuzzy stuff that projects, I was expecting you to say that your teacher is fuzzy up close, but very beautiful in the concert hall. You said the sound of small and pretty up close One time I was in front of a really Distinguished Principal flute player, and their sound was Fuzzy up close. Most flute players I know in my college are just trying to get a sound that's very pretty up close

Miles Maner - Yes it is.

You should be teaching those masterclass. You have such a beautiful sound.

It's a class about interpretation and expression. That's not the point.