Has to be the single most stressful piece to play. All horn players know every single note and articulation and are just waiting for a mistake. Stellar performance and undoubtedly one of the best players. At the end though it is nice to know your human.
It was great! He was an absolute joy and spent a lot of his time with the local french horn students, then sat in the orchestra and joined in with some of the other pieces we played. Top man!
I mentioned this video to Stefan Dohr a while ago, and he actually knew the guy by name and said he's regularly at the concerts and always very enthusiastic - and uncharacteristically Japanese he said he tends to be loudly enthusiastic.
In August this year in LA he did the 2nd Strauss c'to from memory also and NOTE perfect. When one can transcend technique as he can only the music comes out.
The right notes and memorization are not what made this interpretation so great, those are standards and are expected from any professional. What puts him above the rest is his phrasing and his musical interpretation is brilliant!
I loved it but the audience scream drew me back in!!! Yes! Because he nailed it and that was the perfect way to express excitement for such an amazing once in a lifetime. And just becausw i am sentimental, i am pretending he wiped a tear away from his eye as well bc i would have been a hot mess if it had been me!!! Amazing inspirational performance. This was my college audition (a lortion) and it holds a special place in my heart. Amazing performance
I've heard that Concerto played numerous times by numerous players, but that was just extraordinary. No stridency, anywhere. Stefan has changed his interpretation since last I heard him play it. Much for the better. Brilliant.
I can just imagine how many excellent musicians auditioned for each of those chairs! We are living in amazing times. THX for this upload of art! dflatMajor!
I know him from Schubert/octet. He is Berlin Philharmonic member. My first listening has done and Ive been thinking he is good hornist. Screaming man: must be fanboy of R. Strauss's compose or Stefan Dohr. :p
Practice. Practice. Practice. But warm up carefully. My teacher says play the low stuff for twenty minutes before working up into the high range. And, "it starts to get easier if you do three hours a day"😮
JE PENSE QUE STEPHAN SURPASSE RADEK PAR LA PUISSANCE MAIS TOUS LES DEUX SONT DES ANGES BENIS DES DIEUX MERCI INFINIMENT POUR CE BONHEUR MUSICAL EXTREME
BIEN D'ACCORD AVEC VOUS DEUX, QUELS CADEAUX POUR NOS OREILLES SENSIBLES ! AU PASSAGE QUELQU'UN SAIT À QUELLE ADRESSE OÙ ON DOIT ENVOYER LA DEMANDE POUR LE REMBOURSEMENT DE LA CARTE DE TRANSPORTS ?
Edouard Hanslick (Viennese music critic) and Wagner poo pooed it. Older Moscow recordings (Valery Poeleck) used a wide vibrato. Leningrad's Valery Buyanovsky used a narrower vibrato. The French went so far as to practice vibrato with a metronome !! You can hear a vibrato in Myron Bloom's sound. (He said he never analyzed it). It's my opinion that if everything is absolutely perfect a natural vibrato will occur. (a nice litmus test). Lastly is the nanny goat vibrato. It occurs when you're shit your pants terrified !! HaHaHaHa
Оркестр, конечно, немного местами-временами излишне шумноват-громковат. Этот лидер-валторнист ("штучный товар") Стефан способен валторну заставить зазвучать как того она заслуживает. Слушаю его исполнение с удовольствием и особенно соло во второй части 5-й симфонии П,Чайковского ( там валторна - царица симфонического оркестра).
+Bailey Bye I think his horn is fixed in Bb, which means pressing thumb switches it to F, unlike most American double horns. So he actually is playing on mostly the Bb side.
+Bailey Bye On some double horns you can actually do this on your own. I just discovered this with my new Yamaha 667. You can redo the string and valve placement to make it fixed in either Bb or F.
Uhm... this isn't opus 1. Its opus 11. Big difference guys. Come on, get it right. Really though, I dont care. Beautiful performance. Love this piece and just wanted to make a lil joke.
