I am the 1ste oboe player of the radio philharmonic orchestra, today i had a reed session with Francois leleux himself and he made a perfect reed in less then 3 minutes, so it is possible!! I will play concert on the reed tomorrow in concertgebouw Amsterdam! Thanks you Francois, you are the best!!
Well the full video is a bit longer- but I can assure you- he makes reeds faster than anybody else- and then he plays on it right away and it sounds amazing... :)
My father was a fine pianist and as a student at Yale he was teaching Paul Hindemith harmony and counterpoint classes. We both loved playing Poulenc together.
mezzo: non ho mai pensato di seguire un corso di pochi istanti per modellare un'ancia ( chew nn so fare) e comunque si ascolta piacevolmente da un maestro simpatico. Come dicevano a Quelli dela notte, più piacevolmente che da un maestro antipatico.
mais si il a donné son secret , tout est dans l'anche . On gratte du milieu vers la droite et vers la gauche et c'est bon . Enfin c'est ce que j'ai compris .
Joe Robinson as well made reeds quickly before concerts. Reeds that are made quickly can perform with wonderful articulation and dynamics for your performance and are wondrous. But I can almost guarantee that the reed you made the prior day, and performed on, will need adjustments, and will have completely different qualities for dynamics and stability, tone and resistance.
english is my second language so, sorry if i misunderstood anything, but i thought he said never make a reed right before performing on it unless for cases of emergency? i myself have also found that my reeds are mostly dodgy right after i finished them, so i adjust them every day for a few days as well
jkvhcjshcsja cbjsabjhasihfzc Of course it’s the quality of cane, aged is better. I think 3-4 years minimum is best, and a very sharp knife, scraping technique. If the knife is not very sharp and you use too much pressure on top of the cane, it squeezes and crushes the cane instead of scraping it cleanly. After drying out and then becoming moist again what you have crushed and scraped that it’s not smooth will swell and the reed will have resistance and less smoothness and tone and response, in my opinion. John Ellis could make and play on a reed very quickly too. A smooth scrape he had, using very few strokes of the knife. He once told me that the only solo he ever had to record twice was that of the John Williams score of Close Encounters. He would also scrape a reed dry. I have done that as well. I had a double hollow bevel knife that was my favorite for that purpose with very hard steal.
Jeff Zabelski i actually am using a dunt knife and didnt bother to sharpen it as i didn't think it was as important... thank you for your genuine advice, i'll definitely try it
I too finish my reed’s after several days... evening and smoothing the quadrants through backlighting visually for equal shading... Only lightly scraping the darkest or heaviest that is exposed through shading. Even an overall heavy reed will respond more vibrantly if scraped very evenly in all the quadrants. That way, I discover the resonance of that reed to match that of the oboe. You feel it both with the reed on your lips and how the resonance of the oboe feels. If you scrape and finish the reed too quickly you may not find the ultimate resonance quality of that particular piece of cane. But then, I end up with many more performance reeds, and last many hours And they all go into my “performance” reed case. I will always have around 15-20 reeds to choose, for any dress rehearsal or performance. Sometimes the stage gets very dry and hot and reeds will feel like they change in the middle of a performance and more than once I have switched reeds after an intermission, to play on another, with a slight variation in personality and maybe less resistance, with ease of articulation and mezzo piano dynamics in the lower register. Each concert performance has different demands of the reeds... Bach, Mozart...Prokofiev Dvorak, Borodin, to Verdi and Puccini and then Shostakovich to chamber music... What are your skills and what are the demands of the music, that’s why we need to make our own reeds :-)
I am the 1ste oboe player of the radio philharmonic orchestra, today i had a reed session with Francois leleux himself and he made a perfect reed in less then 3 minutes, so it is possible!! I will play concert on the reed tomorrow in concertgebouw Amsterdam! Thanks you Francois, you are the best!!
Having a reed session with leleux must have been amazing!
Best ever. You can ask a lot and read a lot... it's just this.
Well the full video is a bit longer- but I can assure you- he makes reeds faster than anybody else- and then he plays on it right away and it sounds amazing... :)
My father was a fine pianist and as a student at Yale he was teaching Paul Hindemith harmony and counterpoint classes. We both loved playing Poulenc together.
This is only a preview- the full length video is available at Play With A Pro- ready for instant download.
Hope you will enjoy:)
um dia estarei ai ao seu lado professor aprendendo com o senhor este maravilhoso instrumento
Insane how he finishes a reed in just 10 minutes
I'm musician from Gögsborg, I like your videos!
Thanks a lot- you can get them all here: www.playwithapro.com/video/
Nice tone and expression on the Poulenc
Thanks! awesome video! (got it from your web site).
You can get the full video at Play With A Pro:)
mezzo: non ho mai pensato di seguire un corso di pochi istanti per modellare un'ancia ( chew nn so fare) e comunque si ascolta piacevolmente da un maestro simpatico. Come dicevano a Quelli dela notte, più piacevolmente che da un maestro antipatico.
The music is the second movement from 3 romances by Schumann
Glaude Paysan That´s right! Hope you like it :)
Play With A Pro Music Academy it was too easy, I played it a few minutes before watching the video ! :p :D
What's the name of the song during he ending ?
Poulenc Sonata: get it all here: www.playwithapro.com/video/artist/francois-leleux
Where are the step-by-step instructions?
mais si il a donné son secret , tout est dans l'anche . On gratte du milieu vers la droite et vers la gauche et c'est bon . Enfin c'est ce que j'ai compris .
Joe Robinson as well made reeds quickly before concerts. Reeds that are made quickly can perform with wonderful articulation and dynamics for your performance and are wondrous. But I can almost guarantee that the reed you made the prior day, and performed on, will need adjustments, and will have completely different qualities for dynamics and stability, tone and resistance.
english is my second language so, sorry if i misunderstood anything, but i thought he said never make a reed right before performing on it unless for cases of emergency? i myself have also found that my reeds are mostly dodgy right after i finished them, so i adjust them every day for a few days as well
jkvhcjshcsja cbjsabjhasihfzc
Of course it’s the quality of cane, aged is better. I think 3-4 years minimum is best, and a very sharp knife, scraping technique. If the knife is not very sharp and you use too much pressure on top of the cane, it squeezes and crushes the cane instead of scraping it cleanly. After drying out and then becoming moist again what you have crushed and scraped that it’s not smooth will swell and the reed will have resistance and less smoothness and tone and response, in my opinion.
John Ellis could make and play on a reed very quickly too. A smooth scrape he had, using very few strokes of the knife. He once told me that the only solo he ever had to record twice was that of the John Williams score of Close Encounters. He would also scrape a reed dry. I have done that as well. I had a double hollow bevel knife that was my favorite for that purpose with very hard steal.
Jeff Zabelski i actually am using a dunt knife and didnt bother to sharpen it as i didn't think it was as important... thank you for your genuine advice, i'll definitely try it
I too finish my reed’s after several days... evening and smoothing the quadrants through backlighting visually for equal shading... Only lightly scraping the darkest or heaviest that is exposed through shading. Even an overall heavy reed will respond more vibrantly if scraped very evenly in all the quadrants. That way, I discover the resonance of that reed to match that of the oboe. You feel it both with the reed on your lips and how the resonance of the oboe feels. If you scrape and finish the reed too quickly you may not find the ultimate resonance quality of that particular piece of cane. But then, I end up with many more performance reeds, and last many hours And they all go into my “performance” reed case. I will always have around 15-20 reeds to choose, for any dress rehearsal or performance. Sometimes the stage gets very dry and hot and reeds will feel like they change in the middle of a performance and more than once I have switched reeds after an intermission, to play on another, with a slight variation in personality and maybe less resistance, with ease of articulation and mezzo piano dynamics in the lower register. Each concert performance has different demands of the reeds... Bach, Mozart...Prokofiev Dvorak, Borodin, to Verdi and Puccini and then Shostakovich to chamber music... What are your skills and what are the demands of the music, that’s why we need to make our own reeds :-)
Anyone knows the BGM for the intro?
schumann second romance
What is this song ?
Lai791109 Poulenc Oboe Sonata
on ne connaîtra pas encore tous les secrets de François Leleux...
How exactly does he shape reeds with a shaper that's missing one ear?
Well, figure it out here- the full class is for free: www.playwithapro.com/video/artist/francois-leleux
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too short!
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@jeroensoors It is no where NEAR that easy. The video skipped 95% of the steps.
Not really.