Klarinet Archive - Posting 000111.txt from 1995/12

From: Jarle Brosveet <Jarle.Brosveet@-----.NO>
Subj: Cuper's Francaix & Copland
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 09:50:12 -0500

Philippe Cuper's fabulous recordings of the Copland, Francaix and Nielsen
concertos are once again available. Previously on the French Addo label they
were reissued earlier this year on Accord 243852. Cuper seems to get
everything right, technically as well as musically, and the recording gives
one of the best reproductions of clarinet sound I have ever heard. Obviously
this CD is famous for its Francaix, but even those who haven't yet come
across a really satifying recording of the Copland concerto should check
this one out. In this performance it sounds like an impressionistic piece in
the French manner without any jazz at all and serves rightly to remind us
that Copland studied in Paris in the early 1920s.
- Jarle Brosveet.