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Videos of Jennifer Cluff performing
on flute
or listen to mp3 samples:
Imitating the 16 flutes of Sir James
Galway using only two flutes?! The experiements of embouchure.
4. Jen Cluff's two short mp3s of
orchestral flute tone colour samples below....
Here are the two farthest
spectrums of flute tone colour samples; brilliante, and
wooden-or-bamboo flute. They are taken from an orchestral performance a
couple of years ago of a modern percussion concerto.
This is one of my flute cadenzas taken
from a full symphony orchestra concert of modern music, recorded live.
The flute starts with a dark and moody middle register, and ascends to
a brilliant high A3 which then has to diminuendo. I call this "brilliante"
playing in general. It is helped by the fact that the high register
tone colours typical of "ff" playing are brilliant sounding
naturally (good flute writing!). Just for fun listen to how our other
two flutists interupt the descending double tongued cadenza with jet
whistles which is a clever bit of lighthearted orchestration! :>)
2. Sample
TWO [woodflute]
This is a trick sound
sample!!! :>) It's a silver flute pretending to be a wooden flute.
The score called for a wooden flute, and we could not find one fast
enough for the performance that played at A440. Instead I played it on
silver flute using a masking tape "mute" over 1/3rd of the
blow hole, with the headjoint pushed all the way in to bring the pitch
up again. I was trying to match the fast vibrato of a Japanese or
eastern sounding bamboo flute.
These performances are on
an Altus 1007 with original headjoint. The following samples were
played with a Nagahara headjoint on Altus 1107 which is a richer, more
complex tone colour series. Listen to:
Galway's Youtube video linked at above.
For MORE of Jennifer Cluff's playing,
listen and watch at youtube to Jen's
lessons and performances,
or listen to Fluteloops
No. 5 where excerpts of various concerts are linked to
conversations about stagefright and its cures.
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