Episode 20: Stories of Original Wind Instruments - Part 2
Release Date: 06/11/2015
Ep. 35: Brahms Mini-Series 4, Dirk Fischer
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Recording engineer and producer, Dirk Fischer, chats about his career with Marie over coffee in St. Truiden, Belgium, where they have just finished recording Brahms Clarinet Sonatas and Trio with historical instruments.
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Ep. 34: Brahms Mini-Series 3, Claire-Lise Démettre
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Marie sat down with historical cellist, Claire-Lise Démettre, to talk about Romantic-period string playing and techniques. They discuss Claire-Lise's cello and set-up, what it feels like to play gut strings, portamento, different kinds of vibrato – and those special moments that don't require anything from the player, when the music is just beautiful enough on it’s own.
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Ep 33: Brahms Mini-Series 2, Inspirations
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This episode is very personal. Marie plays some short examples of various tracks from the new historically informed Brahms recording and talks about the inspirations, stories, experiences, and influences behind each example.
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Ep. 32: Brahms Mini-Series, Introduction
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The Brahms Mini-Series corresponds to the recent release of a new CD of the Brahms Works for Clarinet and Piano with Marie Ross (clarinet), Petra Somlai (piano), and Claire-Lise Démettre (cello).
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Ep 31: A Composition Contest
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Marie Ross has started the first ever clarinet event in New Zealand, the University of Auckland Clarinet Weekend. She also holds a composition contest for new works for clarinet each year. In this episode, she speaks to last year's first prize winner, Joshua Pearson, about his piece Teine Sa. She talks about the contest itself, and how it will be organized differently this year for the most impact and benefit of the community.
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Ep. 30: David Crowell
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David Crowell is a member of the Philip Glass Ensemble, playing woodwinds, and is a genre-crossing composer in his own right, leading his own band, Empyrean Atlas. His music has been said to be a mix of classical, jazz, pop, post-punk, African, ambient, and minimalism. David has played all over the world with the Philip Glass Ensemble, and chats to Marie about what it is like to play huge works such as Einstein on the Beach.
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Ep. 29: Posy Knight
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Posy Knight is a dancer, choreographer, actor, scenic designer, director, and arts educator. Marie chats with her about all the threads of her artistic life, how they fit together, and how she uses her creativity to better her local community in Milwaukee.
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Ep. 28 Franklin Cohen Part 2
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Marie chats with clarinetist, Franklin Cohen, from the Cleveland Orchestra about the Munich Competition, Leopold Stokowski, and Frank even gives some practice tips - which he manages to relate back to everything else about life.
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Ep. 27: Franklin Cohen Part 1
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Marie talks with Franklin Cohen, Grammy award winning clarinetist and Principal Clarinet of the Cleveland Orchestra for 39 seasons.
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Ep. 26: Teaching Creativity
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Marie talks about her journey from being a full-time performer to also including a teaching position at The University of Auckland.
info_outlineMarie speaks with her colleagues, specialists of historical performance, about their original wind instruments. They tell the stories of their favorite instruments - where and how they got them, and what they had to do to play it again today!
German oboist, Peter Wuttke, talks about the English Horn by Carl Theodor Golde that was played in the orchestra in Weimar that Liszt was conducting. He tells us about how he used this instrument for a recording of the Liszt Dante Symphony.
Italian clarinetist, Luigi Magistrelli, tells us the incredible story of his set of clarinets that he acquired from the legendary player, Dieter Klöcker, just before his death. We hear all about these instruments, their history, and Luigi's personal experience of playing them and recording his CD of Brahms chamber music with them.
Argentinian historical trumpet player, Alejandro Sandler, chats with us about his cornet by Thibouville-Lamy which was owned by a student of Jean-Baptiste Arban. He plays the Carnival of Venice on this cornet and on the modern trumpet so you can hear the difference!