Klarinet Archive - Posting 000124.txt from 1995/12

From: Lisa Gartrell Yeo <ux403@-----.CA>
Subj: Re: Cuper's Francaix & Copland
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 15:03:00 -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.
>
>
Can you give any more details on this recording ie when it was first
recorded? Also excuse my ignorance, but who was Phillipe Cuper? Thanks

Lisa Gartrell Yeo