I had the pleasure of travelling to London every day for a week to watch Karl Leister teach and perform. It was fantastic, my teacher recommended I went, I was only Grade 4 at the time and found Karl Leister to be so inspirational.
Wow! Mr. Leister! All these years now I've been a fan since my late, great teacher, Leon Russianoff declared you and of course his student Stanley Drucker as his favorite clarinetists! I've also been looking for that album he showed me, Weber concertos, as I've lost it. I was also a student of Stanley's wife Naiomi. As a kid at the Drucker's, I would see Stanley with a display of maybe 2-300 boxes of Vandoren reeds! Congratulations on Vandoren's honor to you!
Mr Leister, I do not know if you will read this, but it made me happy to see that you particularly like the only reed I like, Vandoren #2.5 Rue Lepic, sometimes #3 but nothing else to date. I had a similar long term commitment to Rico Royal from around 1971- about 2009, but for me it is Vandoren now, and #2.5 Java Green for tenor saxophone. I do hope you seriously have tried serious tenor saxophone playing, it is to the clarinet, when played properly, like the cello to the violin. If you do read this, could you give me your personal opinion on which Vandoren mouthpiece you think suits Rue Lepic #2.5 Vandoren French or German. By the way, it was a recording of yours of Mozarts piano concerto which dominated my idea of how it should sound from about 1969 even until now really. From your sound it would not surprise me if you really liked Robert Marcellus and Harold Wright. I hope you don't mind that I see your sound with these two which together mostly influence my own sound apart from two NZers which I really were influenced by, George Hopkins and Peter Scholes. My absolute favourite cellist is also a NZer, although I doubt most people know that he is both a NZer and a cellist for he is now a world famous conductor (sadly) and that is Ross Poples. I modelled my tenor saxophone sound exclusively on his cellos sound in 1972, in my fifth year of playing saxophone.
If he likes rue lepic 2.5 reeds, his mouthpiece must be fairly open. If only he would have said what it was. It's no use giving the strength of the reed without including the lay of the mouthpiece. I love Karl Leister's sound.
He said he uses 2,5 rue lepic with the M30D. Same mouthpiece pascual-Martinez forteza uses. Only Martinez uses 3,5 V12. German players tend to use very light setups. Others for whatever reason feel the need to use overly hard reeds.
@@fernie51296 The german clarinet generally is very resistant, it makes sense that his mouthpiece setup is really free blowing in comparison to french clarinet players
Kevin Ngo this is very old! I’ve discovered a lot since my comment. I had the chance to take lessons with Michele Zukovsky, former principal clarinetist of the LA Phil. She plays Wurlitzer German system clarinets like Leister. I tried her clarinets, expecting it to be very resistant and I was blown away how free blowing it was. In fact, I had to focus on relaxing my embouchure to not overblow. The sound was very focused though and beautiful. Since then I’ve changed my setup to a Behn mouthpiece which plays similar to German system mouthpieces. Mine is very closed (0.96mm) and long, and I play it with soft reeds. Projection and tonal warmth is so easy. No need to “keep up the chops”. What I’ve learned from this is that a lot of French clarinetists are working too hard, imo.
@@fernie51296 Yea man, I recently swapped from french clarinets to the german system. I now play a uebel 632 oehler clarinet and I use french mouthpieces on it, I find the french mouthpiece and german clarinet makes for a very nice sound!
Kevin Ngo very interesting. I’m using French clarinet (Ridenour Libertas) with Behn mouthpiece designed like a German mouthpiece. I’m thinking of ordering a Maxton mouthpiece, which Zukovsky uses. They can rebore German and Austrian mouthpieces to fit French clarinets. I feel a lot of people nowadays are breaking from the traditional mold (buffet clarinets with simple Vandoren). A sort of clarinet renaissance!
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Karl Leister.... the best 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 from italy 🇮🇹👋
I had the pleasure of travelling to London every day for a week to watch Karl Leister teach and perform. It was fantastic, my teacher recommended I went, I was only Grade 4 at the time and found Karl Leister to be so inspirational.
The Great Clarinetist Sir K. Leister
75? Wow....and well I hope to listen to you playing for many more years!
Wow! Mr. Leister! All these years now I've been a fan since my late, great teacher, Leon Russianoff declared you and of course his student Stanley Drucker as his favorite clarinetists! I've also been looking for that album he showed me, Weber concertos, as I've lost it. I was also a student of Stanley's wife Naiomi. As a kid at the Drucker's, I would see Stanley with a display of maybe 2-300 boxes of Vandoren reeds! Congratulations on Vandoren's honor to you!
Yes, Vandoren are the best reeds.I have tryed many other reeds - but vandoren are the best
I can second that. If they can improve their consistency that would be appreciated too.
What kind of barrel is that?
+WoodwindRevolution Hello, this is a "Paulus&Schuler" Zoom-Barrel. You can go to: www.paulus-schuler.de/ and see...Best wishes, Frank
Mr Leister, I do not know if you will read this, but it made me happy to see that you particularly like the only reed I like, Vandoren #2.5 Rue Lepic, sometimes #3 but nothing else to date. I had a similar long term commitment to Rico Royal from around 1971- about 2009, but for me it is Vandoren now, and #2.5 Java Green for tenor saxophone. I do hope you seriously have tried serious tenor saxophone playing, it is to the clarinet, when played properly, like the cello to the violin. If you do read this, could you give me your personal opinion on which Vandoren mouthpiece you think suits Rue Lepic #2.5 Vandoren French or German. By the way, it was a recording of yours of Mozarts piano concerto which dominated my idea of how it should sound from about 1969 even until now really. From your sound it would not surprise me if you really liked Robert Marcellus and Harold Wright. I hope you don't mind that I see your sound with these two which together mostly influence my own sound apart from two NZers which I really were influenced by, George Hopkins and Peter Scholes. My absolute favourite cellist is also a NZer, although I doubt most people know that he is both a NZer and a cellist for he is now a world famous conductor (sadly) and that is Ross Poples. I modelled my tenor saxophone sound exclusively on his cellos sound in 1972, in my fifth year of playing saxophone.
5:28 please no "some" more years but "much more years" !!
If he likes rue lepic 2.5 reeds, his mouthpiece must be fairly open. If only he would have said what it was. It's no use giving the strength of the reed without including the lay of the mouthpiece. I love Karl Leister's sound.
He said he uses 2,5 rue lepic with the M30D. Same mouthpiece pascual-Martinez forteza uses. Only Martinez uses 3,5 V12. German players tend to use very light setups. Others for whatever reason feel the need to use overly hard reeds.
@@fernie51296 The german clarinet generally is very resistant, it makes sense that his mouthpiece setup is really free blowing in comparison to french clarinet players
Kevin Ngo this is very old! I’ve discovered a lot since my comment. I had the chance to take lessons with Michele Zukovsky, former principal clarinetist of the LA Phil. She plays Wurlitzer German system clarinets like Leister. I tried her clarinets, expecting it to be very resistant and I was blown away how free blowing it was. In fact, I had to focus on relaxing my embouchure to not overblow. The sound was very focused though and beautiful. Since then I’ve changed my setup to a Behn mouthpiece which plays similar to German system mouthpieces. Mine is very closed (0.96mm) and long, and I play it with soft reeds. Projection and tonal warmth is so easy. No need to “keep up the chops”. What I’ve learned from this is that a lot of French clarinetists are working too hard, imo.
@@fernie51296 Yea man, I recently swapped from french clarinets to the german system. I now play a uebel 632 oehler clarinet and I use french mouthpieces on it, I find the french mouthpiece and german clarinet makes for a very nice sound!
Kevin Ngo very interesting. I’m using French clarinet (Ridenour Libertas) with Behn mouthpiece designed like a German mouthpiece. I’m thinking of ordering a Maxton mouthpiece, which Zukovsky uses. They can rebore German and Austrian mouthpieces to fit French clarinets. I feel a lot of people nowadays are breaking from the traditional mold (buffet clarinets with simple Vandoren). A sort of clarinet renaissance!