Klarinet Archive - Posting 000024.txt from 1996/07

From: thehat@-----.ORG
Subj: Cleveland Orchestra BCAST
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 00:08:21 -0400

This message is for the benefit of those out there whose local stations
subscribe to the Cleveland Orchestra broadcasts (hopefully later than today,
Monday, in other cities). I have just finished listening to (and taping) this
week's broadcast, which consists of historical material. The program was all-
Sibelius, and it gave me (and will give everyone else) a chance to hear the
master - Robert Marcellus - play one of the longest solos (En Saga) and one
of the most frightening (the 4th symphony, in which the beastly passage
apperars twice!) that we as clarinetists could face. This live broadcast was
recorded in 1965.

The En Saga solo is beautifully played, with admirable control of the throat
register intonation. This solo also goes over the break 10 or 12 times, and
it is a good lesson to hear someone who controlled that break so completely.

The Fourth Symphony solo is brilliant, despite a tiny lapse on the high f the
second time through. I remember listening to a recording of this symphony
with Marcellus at his house once (to hear Harold Wright fly through the
solos). Just hearing the opening of the final movement, Mr. M told me, made
him very nervous!

The broadcast concluded with the Sibelius 7th, in a recording from Helsinki
(recorded seperately from the first two works).

I hope you all get a chance to hear and study these performances. Chances are,
none of us will get to hear them done any better.

David Hattner
clarinetist-at-large, NYC
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