Klarinet Archive - Posting 000402.txt from 1996/07

From: Nick Shackleton <njs5%cam.ac.uk@-----.BITNET>
Subj: Re: Brahms piano (Roger Shilcock)
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 14:32:08 -0400

Earlier there was mention of the recording that Keith Puddy made in
Meiningen on Muhlfeld's own clarinet. Having "discovered" Muhlfeld's
clarinets with Keith Puddy the previous year I must say that I thought the
recording did not do justice to the sound of the clarinets as I perceived it
when Keith and I first tried them. However I think that the piano sound is
very successful and gives a good impression of a Brahms piano. Nick
>I believe there is evidence that Brahms's preference was for the Viennese
>pianos of his time, which had a lighter, clearer sound than modern
>sTEINBECHDORFERS. (Down D Leeson, please! Very sorry about your health
>mishap ...). I don't enough about pianos to know whether they still had
>the lighter and more direct Vienna action at that period.
>This might well explain the "dense" sound of the piano parts in the
>clarinet sonatas - and the violin sonatas, likewise.
>Roger Shilcock
>
>

   
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