Instrument: Cor Anglais 

Aww, I love her personality; good sense of humor.

This lady has a lovely voice.

What a gorgeous sound. Also, I would love to have had her as a music teacher, she seems like a lot of fun.

What a clear and funny way to explain this instrument! Good job and thanks!

Going through your instrument guides is, to me, like going through videos of How It's Made... just can't get enough!

She is exceptionally talented at her craft and quite an engaging speaker too. Best interview so far.

She was so funny and awesome. Her sound is beautifullllll

The English horn can achieve such melancholic depths of tone, and Ms. Crowther's characterization of the sound is spot on. I might add that it has the transcendent soaring quality of the oboe, and yet also has a subtle wine barrel roundness and depth of timbre that is unlike any other orchestral instrument. It is utterly beautiful and in my opinion is only surpassed by the cello in terms of conveying melancholy and human emotion.

I got a fever, and the only prescription, is more cor anglais.

She actually talks as though she is there with you the rest talk as though they are held at gunpoint

I love the sound of this beautiful instrument. I'm so glad I found this series! I'm going to watch all of them now!

wow, she has such a good sound on the cor anglais

My favorite passage for cor anglais is in mvt. 4 of Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, Intermezzo interotto, where it takes up the lush string melody (canon at the fifth) though it is obscured by other voices. In most performances it is inaudible; but in Bernstein's performance of circa 1960 (so dear to my heart), it is audible, beautiful; and more conductors should follow his example.

This woman's voice is amazing. I wish she was my grandma

By this series you can tell how much fun it is to play a musical instrument. I've played the flute and Oboe for over 40 years and must say there is no better way to relief stress and get in sync with yourself. And to allow yourself to experience different emotions, depending on the piece you are studying/performing.

So love the way she explains it. Kept it light and breezy.

An excellent presentation from my A level Music classmate! Thank you, Jill.

Having watched, I think, all of the videos in Philharmonia Orchestra's "Instrument Guides" playlist, I think Jill Crowther is the most animated and honest musician featured. She also perfectly lays out the reasons why, when I recently took an interest in the woodwind family, I landed on the clarinet. I say what I'm going to say with absolutely no malice toward double-reed instruments nor the people who choose to play them. I happen to think the oboe, bassoon, and cor anglais have beautiful, essential sounds. 1. You have to prepare your own reeds, and it takes time. 2. The double-reeds can be very temperamental. 3. If you play a double-reed instrument, there's a good chance you'll be assigned a solo. They just have a habit of standing out like that. OK, maybe if you're playing the bassoon, you'll have a definitely-hearable but not leading role laying a sort of baseline for the melody. But to anyone else: good luck trying to stay out of the spotlight. Starting out in the "breathing is how you play the instrument" world, I'm not looking for a whole lot of attention or responsibility. Because I also happen to use my breathing to stay alive and stuff, so it's a balance. And I think it's easier to hide in the background on clarinet. Especially because there's often more than one of those, even in a modest ensemble, so let the more ambitious one get the fancy parts. It's a challenging but important instrument. Not for me, at this particular moment in time.

Very soulful instrument and a very effective and humorous teaching technique.

She's at least in my top three from all these videos, she's a grand lady - funny and interesting commentary.

Can we have more of this lady please she is hilarious

Cor anglais/English Horn fans - what is your favourite solo (orchestral or otherwise) for this wonderful instrument?

Vous êtes formidable, expressive, sympathique, pédagogue et évidemment très talentueuse. UN GRAND MERCI POUR CE MOMENT DE MUSIQUE ET DE FRAICHEUR.

This was a very interesting video. Thank you for your knowledge, your radiating joy, and your personality that keeps music fun for all! -From members of the Quyloon's Tutoring/Teaching & Mentoring Services Network (Q.T.M.S.N.)

Jill; I am an oboist here in the US. I got a copy of your CD english oboe concertos when I was about 12 and still to this day its my favorite Oboe CD!!!! (I own about 3 full boxes of CDs!!!! The overwhelming expression, fullness of tone, and absolute fearlessness is inspiring for me to this day almost 15 years later. Any oboe nerds who fall across this video of Jill, don't walk... RUN and listen to "English Oboe Concertos" with Jill Crowther as soloist. Best oboe CD I own out of hundreds. She represents the rawness and fragility of the instrument in its absolute best light without over-refining the oboe tone into something its not. This is the oboe sound i'm sure the great composers dreamed about while writing their music.

This series changed my entire life. For the better. I absolutely love you guys

She is so lovely and charming 😍 lol. Great video, I'll never forget this introduction to the Cor Anglais 😊. Thanks again 🙋‍♂️.

Amazing! Your playing is out of this world! It made me cry. I'm teaching myself the oboe and this is a fascinating insight into the oboe family. I can't imagine the cost of a cor anglais? Wonderful film. Happy playing.

"We all have to make these... which is a PAIN" I nearly fell off my chair laughing! You should do oboe stand up Jill!

It's strange that modern technology can machine-make and mass-produce clarinet and saxophone reeds with varying hardness, yet for oboe, cor anglais and bassoon players they have to manually make their own reeds?

Jill. Your voice is a lovely instrument also.

This video and the Cello were the bests up to now for me I really liked them

This was the first one I watched from the series, found it accidentally when I tried to find what English Horn sounds like. Now I'm back here in the process of watching the whole series.

my birthday wish: to have her as my music teacher😁

I LOVE THIS INSTRUMENT SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH my school took a field trip to an orchestra and it showcased the english horn and i absolutely fell i LOVE. (i played clarinet at the time) i talked to my band teacher (who's my favorite teacher of all time btw) and she said theres no english horn in our band but the closest thing is oboe so i took up oboe and i still play it today and someday i aspire to learn english horn

I could listen to her all day! Great video, and a fabulous player with a fantastic personality!

@Elaine Goodall, start with Oboe. You will need to learn all the basics and fundamentals of Oboe before you can even make a sound on Cor Anglais! Starting on auxiliary instruments can make you develop terrible habits! Start on oboe, and when you're advanced enough (your teacher can tell you), you can start playing Cor Anglais. Just remember, if you will always have to play both; there is no such thing as switching to Cor Anglais, because almost all Cor Anglais parts in the orchestra require you to switch between Cor Anglais and oboe.

Thankyou Jill...Fascinating!!

love the personality of this woman!

She's fantástic! What a Sense of Humour!

I clicked on this, quite dis-interestedly after hearing someone mention the Cor Anglais -- but Jill had me hooked. What an awesome video!

Mind my ignorance, but is this the same instrument that is prominently heard in Schindler's list, after the violin?

So glad I found this video. Thanks for posting.

Le Cor anglé. Explications très intéressantes, merci...

Gorgeous instrument thanks for uploads

I lover her personality!!!! Please be my music teacher😍😍😍

What a wonderfully engaging person. I thoroughly enjoyed this video and I cannot claim to have an interest in woodwind really.

new world symphony thank you I really enjoyed that.

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Well, thank you for a delightful explanation of that rare and lovely sounding instrument. I'll be aware or its unique sound whenever I hear it played.

What an interesting instrument. So happy I found this channel. Bless these musicians for making these videos to explain their instruments. I am a cello student myself and a new subscriber.

Fascinating -- and that app looks FANTASTIC!

I love these videos, very informative and enjoyable!

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Thank you for all this information, you are a very great person.

Very helpful video, thanks!

I studied oboe as kid, and I have yet to meet an oboist who isn't in some way funny, quirky, and a little bit eccentric. This wonderful lady seems to be no exception. She explained and demonstrated the workings and quirks of this beautiful, difficult instrument, and the frustrating but necessary craft of reed-making, extremely well. :)

I play this instrument! Its super fun to play and sounds great!

I doubt that you'll read this, but I would LOVE it if there were a video also for the bass oboe, a criminally underrated instrument. I don't get it, the flute has the piccolo, the clarinet has the bass clarinet, and the bassoon has the contrabassoon as the common companion so to speak; yet of all of these, the woodwind with the smallest range (oboe) is the one that isn't commonly accompanied by another instrument in the family to extend the range by a full octave, but rather one that plays a 5th lower. I absolutely love the little I have heard of the bass oboe, I will never forget that solo it has in Saturn; what a dark instrument.

Absolutely fascinating......I didn't know you all made your own reeds. Love the instruments sound. Thank you for the vid.

Yeah what a great presentation and personality.

I had never heard of this instrument until seeing this video, very nice.

Feckin love Jill

Love the sound

Fantastic, thank you

Very beautiful!

Thanks for sharing such an interesting video, the lady player is genius!

So this is the instrument used so beautifully in Dvorkak's 9th, which is also my favorite symphony, and as an added bonus I now understand how to pronounce "cor anglais." By the way, Cesar Franck's Symphony in D Minor makes use of this instrument in a way that for some reason the musical snobs of his day excoriated.

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haha! Love her humour while pointing the harsh reality of being a double reed players face. every. single . time.

My goodness... She is such a beautiful charming lady. Wish I could take lessons from her!

Very nice 👍 I love it, thank you everyone

That face she pulled at the end was amazing 😆😆😆

I love how she seemed nervous and didn't really know what to talk about, and then she just went off talking about it naturally and enthusiastically

Fantastic Videos! Very informative, thank you!

Wonderful...I never knew there was such an instrument

fabulous

Such a cool instrument. Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky used it in The Nutcracker, Rimsky-Korsakov used it in Scheherazade, and don't forget the Roman Carnival overture of Berlioz... long live the cor anglais! 🎵🎶

I really enjoyed listening to this player, she’s clearly a good teacher. I wonder whether Andy MacKay from Roxy Music sometimes played one of these. I know he plays the oboe, but a few of their songs have this more mellow sound, especially on Avalon.

Great clip! Very insightful and entertaining!

Very nice video, well presented, well explained. Nice personality comes shining through.

I I always like the sound of the cor anglais Especially in Wagner . I didn’t know all these interesting facts about to reid .I finally get to see what it looks like Thanks

Very interesting, as usual, and Jill is a very funny person, thank you! :)

5:14 it looks like she's about to cry out of frustration making those reeds haha

Thank you!!

Philharmonia Orchestra (London, UK) It's not really a Horn but it's actually an F Alto Oboe.

OML the English horn/Cor Anglais sounds so pretty, but the fingering position of where your finger, go looks so hard because all that spacing in between each key.

אישית אני אוהב לשמוע את חלקו של קרן היער ! ועכשיו אני מבין את כיצד הוא מוציא צלילים !!!

I'm sampling this thank you!

her playing dvorak on the cor anglais almost made me cry it really sounds melancholy

Omitted from this lovely video was the customary few words to mention that the Cor Anglais, "English Horn", is neither English nor a horn... Beautiful instrument especially in "In The Steppes of Central Asia" which I have loved for 45 years.

thanks ! it is very helpful to me.

I propably have heard this in some classical, but never heard the name of this instrument until now. Very melancholic indeed, I like :) Interesting that they have to make their own reeds.

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I couldn't imagine the dedication it takes to get to this level. I played clarinet in the 6th grade and that was fun, but this is like 1,000,000 times+ harder :0

Some people also insist that the name of the instrument came from the French "cor anglé" (angled horn, because of the angled bocal, which differs from the oboe's (though the dispute can be contentious, this name has most often been disregarded). The angled bocal allows the instrument to rest at an angle more accessible for the hands to manipulate the keys, since it is a very long instrument. Cor Anglais has often been a contentious name, as well, since it is neither English, nor a horn, in the truest sense of the word.

The English Horn sounds amazing ! 🤩

I think this instrument features prominently in Anthony Phillips' Geese and the Ghost album. Quite lovely.

hi Jill,Congratulations!

soooo the french horn is called french horn in english but the english horn is called english horn in french :o