Klarinet Archive - Posting 000223.txt from 1995/10

From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns%cl.cam.ac.uk@-----.BITNET>
Subj: Re: Connie Josias speaks about Holliger
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 04:47:07 -0400

Dan Leeson writes:

> Every now and then a musician comes along like Holliger. And it does not
> really matter what you play, when you hear him play, you say, "Oh, I would
> love to be able to create like that!!".
>
> Others that do that do me are Perlman on fiddle, Yo-Yo Ma on cello, [...]

I feel like that about Kari Kriikku on the clarinet. There are
performers I've loved to listen to over the years, but no-one quite
takes my breath away like he does, both in the classic repertoire and
in the modern stuff (he played a new BBC commission at this year's
Proms -- weird, but totally wonderful).

Robin