Nine minutes of amazing Ophicleide!

[David Richoux]

http://youtu.be/YKwd_8ts9Zc

Ferdinand David Concertino Op.12 pour Basson (ou alto ou ophicléide!)

Direction : Benjamin Attahir
Ophicléide : Patrick Wibart

Filmé lors du prix de Saxhorn et Euphonium au CNSMDP le 5 juin 2013

If players in the 19th century played this well there would have been less need for the tuba!

[bigtubby]

Thanks for posting! Patrick is no slouch on the serpent either.

[Tom Coffey]

Wow-- a lot of great brass playing is going on there. That is the most ophicleide I ever heard in one sitting, and the only solo.

[Tom Coffey]

P.S. The serpent video is more than worthy of a listen, also. This soloist gets a very refined sound from a very difficult instrument!

[dwerden]

Agreed - amazing! I heard that the other day and immediately posted it to my Euphonium Videos page (because I don't have an Ophicleide Videos page!).

Guys like this just reinforce the idea that the player matters a lot more than the horn. If you've got a musical soul, it comes out of almost anything you play.

On the old Ted Mack Amateur Hour I once heard a guy playing potato whistle. He did a jazz arrangement of "I Found a New Baby" and it was great!! I also remember a recording of James Galway playing a penny whistle - also amazing.

And then there is Sergei Nakariakov. He started as a piano player, but an injury made it impossible to continue on that track. At the age of 13 or 14 he recorded a CD of trumpet works with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra after only a few years of playing. Again, the music within him came right out, with or without 88 keys.