Bravo! Compelling interpretation! Flawless technique! Well focused sound! A definitive performance! Thank you! I performed this for the WSMA high-school student contest in my senior year '65. I was greatly motivated by a high-school senior two years ahead of me who went on to Julliard and is the Professor of Clarinet at the University of North Carolina-Chappel Hill for the last 40+ years. We both studied with our same band director. He nailed it and I was in the "ballpark". Flash forward, I had a clarinet/sax studio for forty years in the mid-west and a son who performed it when he was a senior in high-school and has now gone over to the "dark side" from an applied physics to a music ed major (HIS idea and loves it!). A sort of "chain of inspiration".......
The individual notes in your runs are the easiest to hear and identify of all the youtube soloists, whether this is the clarinet, the player or the local acoustics I don't know. It is the care with which they are played makes them stand out so clearly.
Magnifique ! autant techniquement que musicalement .... difficile de croire que c'est œuvre est difficile pourtant elle l'est ... bravo !! les problèmes techniques sont complètement maîtrisés et il peut laisser libre court à son imagination pour la musique ! magnifique !
@IAmAllKnowing29 And then listen to intellectual structure, style, pacing, subtleties, and you will find Franch-Ballester far exceeds most flashy players these days.
This was done very well. Sounds awesome!! The only thing that I personally did not like was when you used circular breathing. In a lot of songs it works great to keep it fluid like and can make a song sound even more amazing. But with this song, I think the breath spots just help with the paraphrasing of the story in the piece. But I love your rendition of this song, it was just stunning.
@IAmAllKnowing29 This is not very difficult piece.Mostly scales up and down.The most difficult part of it is to let it sound as a lyrical piece and not as technical study or show piece. To see what I'm talking about then I highly recommend that you listen to the recording of the Nielsen concerto from 1970 I think with John McCaw and the Philharmonia orchestra.
a little too excessive in the movements? but very very very nice tone, reminds of Julliard's Clarinets, thats what the world needs more of, more julliard clarinet sounds instead of the harsh, loud tones that ppl play with. uG, that dirves me insane hearing that tone....
you are 18 lol , btw a music intruCtor wouldn't talk like this , and would give constructive critisism ... age doesn't matter, its about how you play the piece now ! not at what age ...
Hey Sr. Franch-Ballester. This fine performance shows why you should not post some of the other crap you also played so well but is unlistenable (hey, I love contemporary music - just not sound effects on fine instruments). Mr. Sun most likely did the best he could but he is overshadowed by bad piano tuning and his limited understanding of audio signal theory.
Anthony Lowrey, You lose the credibility of your criticism about the performance by constantly referring to this piece as a ..."song". It may be a small point, however, but to use this term, presumably with some background and training in classical music dilutes any authority you may have. It's not referred to as a "song", it can be called a composition, piece, work, etude (which means "a study"), solo etc. A song is sung, as in singing, using a voice. Even if the music being played has the word song in the title, but written for an instrument, it's called a "piece" etc. If it's religious work with chorus, vocal soloists and orchestra such as a Mass or Requiem, it's still called composition or work. Technically, singing a vocal solo in an opera could be defined as a song, however, term used is an "aria". It's like proper grammer, social etiquette, using the correct fork etc. Good luck.
Jesus Christ... that was damn near perfect for me. That's exactly the way I believe that peice should be played. Bravo! That was incredible.
This is by far my favorite interpretation of this piece of music.
I love your interpretation of this piece!
Wow, you play super, José!!!! Veeery nice performance of this beautiful work!!! 5 stars, of course.
my new favorite recording of this piece. Awesome job man!
wow .. perfect !! 😍😍😍😍😍😍
Last minute was the best part :) I can't play it that fast to save my life!!!
Bravo! Very Very beautiful!
think it’s the best solo de concours I’ve ever watched.
Wow i love this music
No mistakes!!! I just looked over the music and everything was perfection!!! :D
At 0:29, he missed the F leading into the G in the 3rd set of triplets. Listen closely.
You 2 play so well. I really enjoy listen to you.
Bravo!
Compelling interpretation!
Flawless technique!
Well focused sound!
A definitive performance!
Thank you!
I performed this for the WSMA high-school student contest in my senior year '65.
I was greatly motivated by a high-school senior two years ahead of me who went on to Julliard and is the Professor of Clarinet at the University of North Carolina-Chappel Hill for the last 40+ years.
We both studied with our same band director. He nailed it and I was in the "ballpark".
Flash forward, I had a clarinet/sax studio for forty years in the mid-west and a son who performed it when he was a senior in high-school and has now gone over to the "dark side" from an applied physics to a music ed major (HIS idea and loves it!).
A sort of "chain of inspiration".......
Nice...thanks! it's my first solo when i make studies with my teacher Maurice Gabai !
Браво!!!
Beautiful playing
The individual notes in your runs are the easiest to hear and identify of all the youtube soloists, whether this is the clarinet, the player or the local acoustics I don't know. It is the care with which they are played makes them stand out so clearly.
Magnifique ! autant techniquement que musicalement .... difficile de croire que c'est œuvre est difficile pourtant elle l'est ... bravo !! les problèmes techniques sont complètement maîtrisés et il peut laisser libre court à son imagination pour la musique ! magnifique !
Inspiring ...
Holy JESUS!
super!
Brilijant best performance
woow
i agree
You're very good and musically mature!
bravo
yh right
@slipknotmetal66666 You can definitely see by the gold plate on the site of the ligature that it's a Rovner model.
best performance of Andre Mesagger solo de concours ...
Hey Nikola Nicevski, I agree. Very song-like in expression and wonderfully executed.
que bien te suena el clarinete me encanta cual es¿???
puede que sea el yama/csg o algo de eso¿???
mencanta
I thought it sounded GREAT. I love your other works as well. Ignore the idiots below. Some people just cannot take the competition that is out there.
Well:) An excellent performance. I just don't get why Messager finishes the tune on the Dominant, rather than the basic tone... But great playing!
Zomgawd I want the scoreeeee! X)
and he can circular breathe! how?!
i think it's a BG ligature you see ;)
5:34
Sounds near identical to Corrado Giuffredi but still both interpretations are yet drastically different
1:39 2:31
ya seria genial sino estuviera editado
@IAmAllKnowing29
And then listen to intellectual structure, style, pacing, subtleties, and you will find Franch-Ballester far exceeds most flashy players these days.
@z0sim0 Could be a Guy Chadash barrel.
welll it is a dimploma piece and is very hard VERY HARD
camourajunior brilhante,maravilhoso,porém diferente em termos de andamento no que se refere ao Julien Bliss
@dckuki Its Rossi I guess..
Creo que es un Backum o algo así.
His tone has gotta so much better! Check out his newer stuff!
han kim doesn't even have a descent fingering and his tone isn't even clear ,
this man in the video can play the piece 1000x more beautiful =)
This was done very well. Sounds awesome!! The only thing that I personally did not like was when you used circular breathing. In a lot of songs it works great to keep it fluid like and can make a song sound even more amazing. But with this song, I think the breath spots just help with the paraphrasing of the story in the piece. But I love your rendition of this song, it was just stunning.
"Paraphrasing"? Don't use words that are too big for you.
I don't like how many times you said song in there.
A song sung with words (in most instances). No words, it's a piece, work, composition etc.
Corrado Giuffredi interpretation was equal
@IAmAllKnowing29 This is not very difficult piece.Mostly scales up and down.The most difficult part of it is to let it sound as a lyrical piece and not as technical study or show piece. To see what I'm talking about then I highly recommend that you listen to the recording of the Nielsen concerto from 1970 I think with John McCaw and the Philharmonia orchestra.
thats one giant iphone lol ...
a little too excessive in the movements?
but very very very nice tone, reminds of Julliard's Clarinets, thats what the world needs more of, more julliard clarinet sounds instead of the harsh, loud tones that ppl play with. uG, that dirves me insane hearing that tone....
Sound is good, Feeling is good too. But there are lack of profounded depth such as Dangain, Gangi
you are 18 lol ,
btw a music intruCtor wouldn't talk like this , and would give constructive critisism ...
age doesn't matter, its about how you play the piece now ! not at what age ...
legato much? nice tone but music is the things around the notes not the notes themselves
Post your performance, poser.
Hey Sr. Franch-Ballester. This fine performance shows why you should not post some of the other crap you also played so well but is unlistenable (hey, I love contemporary music - just not sound effects on fine instruments). Mr. Sun most likely did the best he could but he is overshadowed by bad piano tuning and his limited understanding of audio signal theory.
Anthony Lowrey,
You lose the credibility of your criticism about the performance by constantly referring to this piece as a ..."song". It may be a small point, however, but to use this term, presumably with some background and training in classical music dilutes any authority you may have.
It's not referred to as a "song", it can be called a composition, piece, work, etude (which means "a study"), solo etc.
A song is sung, as in singing, using a voice.
Even if the music being played has the word song in the title, but written for an instrument, it's called a "piece" etc.
If it's religious work with chorus, vocal soloists and orchestra such as a Mass or Requiem, it's still called composition or work. Technically, singing a vocal solo in an opera could be defined as a song, however, term used is an "aria".
It's like proper grammer, social etiquette, using the correct fork etc. Good luck.
If you are a music instructor then you sure lack of proffesionalism.
I dont like his tone...although he adds great expression to his playing, just needs to sound a little more pure.