Klarinet Archive - Posting 000872.txt from 1995/05

From: Bruce Hudson <HUDSONB@-----.COM>
Subj: Paul Meyer, 20th Century
Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 13:29:10 -0400

Surely I've just skipped over previous posts, surely I'm not the
first person to rant and rave over Paul Meyer's recently released
Denon CD, _20th Century Music for Unaccompanied Clarinet_. Of
course it exposes my penchant for 20th Century music, but it's
simply one of the most exciting, musically adventurous and
exquisitely rendered recordings I've heard. I'm curious as to how
it has struck others. To me he's not simply playful, i.e. the
Ebony Concerto and Bruce Yea; this is serious new music rendered
with all the finesse, eloquence, sound etc. that it seems to me
that can be eked out of the instrument. And to this listener if
felt like there was not the slightest nuance or sound that was not
receiving Meyer's full attention. (Now I guess that's a stupid
thing to say. What recording artist isn't paying attention in the
studio? I guess what I mean is that nothing ever seems
superfluous, there's no sound that doesn't seem to be exactly where
it should be, and at no point can one imagine a bored unengaged
performer providing yet one more rendition of Weber, Baermann,
Brahms or Shumann.)

Comments?

Bruce Hudson, HUDSONB@-----.com

Raleigh, NC