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Tchaikovsky's Perfect Oboe Solo

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A quick look at the all the little aspects that add up to a perfectly crafted woodwind solo by Tchaikovsky: register, tempo, articulation, phrasing, nuances, and artistic sensibility.
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@hutaolover6665 Год назад

as an oboist i do have to say one point and that’s that there’s no place to breathe 😅

@OrchestrationOnline Год назад

Hence the utter perfection as the oboist collapses on the stage perfectly after 20 bars! 🙃

@kaiboennighausen3526 Год назад

My goal is usually to breathe once at the halfway point. I’ve heard recordings of breathing in other places (like between the double Db’s) and I don’t like those as much

@billxrl4154 Год назад

Yeah, usually it goes just as @kaiboennighausen3526 says. In most recordings the conductor even holds the tempo on bar 9 so the oboist can have that precious half second to fill up. I guess if you know how to circular breathe this becomes a non issue, but then you run into problems with the phrasing. Honestly I think this solo is meant to be played in two breaths.

@marije179 11 месяцев назад

Wait, I thought you guys didn't need to breathe

@its_Phelix 11 месяцев назад

Nah you don’t get to breath

@matthewgarza6816 Год назад

I’m not a fan of how a lot of people loop their Shorts, but goodness I have to say this is one of the best I’ve seen structurally. Boldly starting on the second half of the solo, yet in line with what you’re saying, and ending on the first half so it loops back as if it kept going. Bravo!

@Jwellsuhhuh Год назад

I still don’t get why people bother to loop the shorts, it’s just corny every time. There’s always a stutter no matter what you do in your editing and it’s not like it’s gonna get you any extra retention

@AeolianMusica 2 месяца назад

It’s not written to be easy, but it is written to be hauntingly beautiful. Tchaikovsky was a master of instrumental colour.

@rsaettone 2 месяца назад

Possibly my favorite symphony of all time, so glad to see this oboe part getting some love!

@groezy Год назад

this was the first symphony i played when i was in grade school and this solo has been in my head ever since

@nickmaestro Год назад

I love this movement so much. I actually just made a reduced arrangement of this movement two days ago for piano sextet: violin 1/2, viola, cello, bass and piano. I gave the oboe solo to the piano in octaves. Original range in left hand, 8va in the right.

@billxrl4154 Год назад

There's also a pretty similar (a bit less dramatic) solo in Sleeping Beauty - No 15b - Variation d'Aurore, where you can notice the same characteristics, plus some pauses between the phrases for breathing that make it one of the very relaxing ones.

@radislaw Год назад

Tchaikovsky is my favorite Russian composer

@exellria 2 месяца назад

I also love the scoring of the bassoon at the end with the harmonic rhythm, which progresses faster than the original opening!!

@zman2577 8 месяцев назад

It really is a perfect solo. When we played the movement for a performance the audience was blown away!

@stalkerstomper3304 Год назад

Beautiful? Yes. Remarkable! My favorite? Rach's 2nd Symphony, 2nd mvt, and that heavenly clarinet solo. You haven't lived if you've never heard it.

@matthewgellar1442 Год назад

Id love to see one of these on bass clarinet. Imo its the most flexible instrument in the orchestra, curious to see if others agree

@OrchestrationOnline Год назад

Hi Matthew! Check out my other short on bassoon+bass clarinet unison, and also Rimsky-Korsakov Tutti Chord Table 1 video, where I play a long bass clarinet solo weaving around the male soloist's aria.

@matthewgellar1442 Год назад

@@OrchestrationOnline I definitely will! Much appreciated!

@michaelmueller7962 2 месяца назад

I even would not disagree if you say it's the most beautiful (looking and sounding) instrument in an orchestra, but from its mid-range upwards it becomes more and more temperamental and harder to play, so the bassoon or the 'normal' clarinet would be the easier option.

@Shaan_Suri 6 месяцев назад

This symphony is less appreciated than 5,6... when it is truly a masterpiece.

@tuantranproduction Год назад

Hi sir. I expect your next Brass section series from Orchestration 302 so much.

@ValeriaLoja Год назад

what a beautiful explanation. Thank you, sir!

@maruune4447 9 месяцев назад

i’m an oboist that would argue that the low F is also in the sweet spot range, it is a very stable and resonant note (with regular fingering, with forked f it sounds a little odd)

@OrchestrationOnline 9 месяцев назад

No argument here.

@picklerickpringls5731 3 месяца назад

That first screen is if an oboe and a clarinet had a baby

@OrchestrationOnline 3 месяца назад

But what would we call it, an obinet or a clarinoe? 🤔

@picklerickpringls5731 2 месяца назад

@@OrchestrationOnlinea cloboe

@kaiboennighausen3526 Год назад

Love the solo, but damn I wish it was in a friendlier key, the pinky gymnastics in this one 😅

@roqueavellaneda Год назад

Dang, 5 flats not easy on anyone 😅

@billxrl4154 10 месяцев назад

Amen brother, I do the pinky gymnastics too because of how much I hate that god damn F fork fingering you're supposed to do in that scale.

@CommunistBearFighter 2 месяца назад

@@billxrl4154 use the left hand F. the pinky gymnastics is not hard in the slightest if you've practised scales for more than a minute in your life.

@lili7553 Год назад

I love russian compositiors! ❤

@kehsvdkjef 7 месяцев назад

Everything's perfect other than the key signature-

@aronbucca6777 Год назад

I have that book

@PaulHirsh Год назад

He's not playing the staccato dots.

@Teladian2 Год назад

If you really wantva beautifully scored oboe solo, look at the Barber First Symphony.... thecTchaik solo is fone, bit we nred to breathe. Another good would be the Brahms violin concerto, the Beethoven 3rd, 6th, 7th and 9th symphonirs, the Bizet symphony in C, the Don Juan Slow solo...

@OrchestrationOnline Год назад

Those are all great too, I know them all very well. Goos suggestions for future shorts, thanks! 🙂

@Sshooter444 Год назад

A similar solo for horn would be in his 5th symphony

@rushana1956 Год назад

God, you wrong

@marisolecheverri3195 Год назад

❤

@marky777 Год назад

For me (low) f notes are still fine

@OrchestrationOnline Год назад

Of course - it's not a question of playability, but character of tone.

@rifcafcaf2391 Месяц назад

The "if you want to study" at the beggining sounds like if it was said by a tiktok voice

@OrchestrationOnline Месяц назад

That's just my voice - I can't speak to imitators. 🙂

@RobertoMartinez-kv5tp Год назад

✔

@khris5743 Год назад

That is the most flats I’ve ever seen as an oboe player 💀

@AcaciusR 9 месяцев назад

Not perfect because if it was perfect, every single instrument would be playing on one instrument while playing piano repretoire

@AndreyRubtsovRU Год назад

As a professional oboist let me tell you it is far from being a well written solo. Nothing wrong with music, just the inner workings that T didnt have to know.

@OrchestrationOnline Год назад

The price for perfection often is paid by the performer even more than the composer. All my empathies (as someone who started training as a Ravel piano recitalist!).