David Guerrier - «Airs variés» pour ophycléide et piano de Hyacinthe Klosé

[neody14]

it's sounds like a baritone..



[ppwaterfield]

Douglas Yeo, trombone player in the Boston Symphony Orchestra, plays both ophicleide and serpent.

[Ruigekerel]

@ppwaterfield so?

[gagnesotti]

WTF?????

[SpinifexPeople]

Best Ophecleide playing I've seen on a Youtube video so far.

[monteleone1010]

are there ophicléides in America? I've never seen one so far...

[danielwills93]

@monteleone1010 there are but mainly in the hands of collectors.. these things are old! I know of at least one brass/horn trader in the US who has had atleast 3 of these over there years. Search for brass collectors

[youtuuba]

A nice performance. Too bad it is spoiled by the misinformation spoken by the performer, who has learned to play ophicleide but has not bothered to learn about his instrument in other ways, and has not learned its correct history or that of the serpent. Then his nice performance is interrupted by idiotic comments by others. This performance should be re-posted without the commentary, in which case it can stand as a useful item.

[kurtarmbruster]

Je l'aime beaucoup--tres, tres charmant! Merci pour le partager.

[5610winston]

It certainly has a nicer timbre than a serpent, almost like a euphonium, but I do hear the intonation issues.

[paulcisse]

Merci et bravo de nous faire connaitre cet instrument, de le faire si bien et avec autant de talent et d'humour.

J'aime les musiciens comme vous !

[horseplacebigdream]

なるほど、これがオフィクレードか…気に入った!吹いてみたい!­

[SotR59]

I've heard "of" these but this is the first time I heard it played. Very cool but I can see what he means. The upper register and lower register sound like two different horns. The high sounds like a French horn and the middle to bottom sounds like a trombone or perhaps a baritone. I like it though. Would love to have one for my collection.

[sokudumi]

Euphonium?



[lennic95]

@sokudumi Are you blind?

[Meyerbeer1]

@sokudumi ophycléide 

[Dogsledfan]

This was absolutely wonderful. Berlioz was wrong (JUST ONCE!) when he said it sounded like a bellowing bullock. Berlioz himself later admitted that the more modern tubas didn't "work" as well in Symphonie Fantastique's Dies Irae section. This is proof that, in the hands of a good player, the ophlicleide is as "legitimate" an instrument as any other.

[MrInitialMan]

I don't speak a word of French, so I hope schilke60fr can read English.

Thank you for posting this video of an Ophicleide being played. I always wanted to know what they sounded like, and now I do. Thank you very much.

[trumpetermonkey]

ohhh wonderful

[Alidade12]

Monstrueux... de talents... je suis sur qu'avec un tuyeau d'arrosage... m'enfin... J'ai un ophicleide dans son jus á céder... avis aux talents en herbe !

[FD220283]

C génial !

[omgmrpala]

Merci très joli!