Klarinet Archive - Posting 000240.txt from 1995/02

From: Christopher G Zello <czello@-----.EDU>
Subj: Brahms Sonatas
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 18:18:29 -0500

I would like to suggest listening to the Boston Records (BR1005CD)
recording of these Sonatas with Peter Serkin and Harold Wright. Both
Sonatas are on the disc, as well as the Schumann Fantasy Pieces.

The other recording with Harold Wright of the Sonatas had Rudolf Serkin
playing piano. I got a copy of it a few years back from a former teacher
of mine, but to my knowledge it is no longer available. Has it been
re-released? Does anyone have a label number?

Although these have Wright playing on both of them they are quite
different interpretations. Granted, Harold Wright sounded fabulous (to
me), but tempi are different and the feel in some places is totally
different. Both recordings are worth listening to. I honestly feel that
the trouble you may encounter trying to find the recording with Rudolf
Serkin is worth the hassle when you hear it. . .

Not to constantly be bringing up myths, since I would like to put an end
of incorrectly ones, I had heard from a music history professor last year
that Rudolf Serkin something about the his perception of rhythm in the
Schumann Fantasy Pieces (the old story of dotted eighth, sixteenth
versus a triplet 2+1) differed from Harold Wright's, such that since
they couldn't agree on how Schumann should go, they didn't work together
on it. I am making reference to the one Piece where one voice has
triplets and another has sixteenth subdivisions; and some people believe
that it is acceptable to play the sixteenth late, sounding more like the
last six-tuplet, instead of the final sixteenth in a dotted eighth-
sixteenth pattern.

Christopher Zello
czello@-----.edu

   
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