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In Reply to: RE: Correct about his reedmaking.... posted by Todd Krieger on March 15, 2011 at 23:27:14
since there are very few recordings of him around. Unless you listen to early Philadelphia recordings (78s), you won't hear much of Tabuteau. Even on the early LPs--by the early 50s, Tabuteau was frequently absent from the orchestra due to health problems, and so de Lancie had to sub for him.The best chance to hear Tabuteau, ironically, is on amateur tape made during lessons by one of his students, the Danish oboist Waldemar Wolsing. A CD of it is included with the Laila Storch biography. Listen to it if you get a chance--Tabuteau's sound, and especially his phrasing, are magical. I would take that sound over ANYTHING one hears today.
All of the big-name oboists I've ever talked to over the years, such as Mack, de Lancie, even Still, were quick to point out how mesmerizing, how truly unique Tabuteau's playing was in person (the 78s don't do him justice). There will probably never be another oboist of his caliber, at least in the orchestral field.
"You weren't afraid of being born--why would you be afraid of dying?" Alan Watts
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Based on your time perspective, the oboe I've heard on a lot of Phila. Orch. recordings was after the Tabuteau era...... Maybe that explains it.
Knowing that, there were probably not a lot of good recordings of him performing, at least by modern standards.
Au contraire, I found several CD's featuring Tabuteau's playing at amazon.com.
His performances of Mozart K370 and Bach BWV1093 from the Prades Festival are available from Music and Arts as single albums and an 8 CD set.
Boston 6A6H is a compilation of excerpts from his Philadelphia recordings, acoustic and electrical, from 1920 to 1940.
I forgot about the Prades Festival recordings--those are actually pretty decent.
The Philadelphia Orchestra excerpts, on the other hand, are rather dim sounding, not a good indication of Tabuteau's sound. Every one of his orchestral colleagues interviewed in Laila Storch's book said that the recordings made during the 78 era didn't do him justice.
"You weren't afraid of being born--why would you be afraid of dying?" Alan Watts
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