Klarinet Archive - Posting 000044.txt from 1995/05

From: Rod McDonald <rmcdonald@-----.NZ>
Subj: Re: has the clarinet changed?
Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 19:01:06 -0400

On Sat, 29 Apr 1995 Donald B. Kinghorn wrote:

> ... I never heard any soprano clarinet playing that I liked,
> live or recorded. I had respect for some of the players, I just
> didn't like their sound or the music they were playing, I think DULL
> was the word used in a previous posting..........

> BUT NOW (12 years latter) I LOVE THE SOPRANO CLARINET! I heard the
> Eddie Daniels CD, Collection (an assortment of pieces off several
> recordings), and was stunned, I had never heard anyone play the
> clarinet like that! Then I heard Richard Stoltzman's new CD Visions,
> it almost brought tears to my eyes, it's the most beautiful sound
> I've ever heard out of a clarinet!

Thanks Don. From the general tone of this forum I thought that
there must have been something wrong with me in delighting in
Stolzmann. I too always found classical clarinet Dull. Then
Stolzmann electrified me too! Mainly because it had some subtle
vibrato and passion in it, I think, which in my very sparse
listening I had not come across before in classical clarinet.

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