Klarinet Archive - Posting 000025.txt from 1996/08

From: thehat@-----.ORG
Subj: Re: Recordings
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 21:16:40 -0400

In a message dated 08-01-96 INTERNET: BAKERG01=TIGGER wrote to ** ALL **:
IB> There is a recording, probably re-relaesed on Sony Essential
IB> Classics, of George Szell conducting the Polovetsian Dances with the
IB> Cleveland Orchestra. Robert Marcellus's playing is (as usual)
IB> wonderful. One interesting fact about that recording is that at the
IB> time it was made, Marcellus was in a short phase of his career during
IB> which he experimented with crystal mouthpieces.

The only note I would like to make about this recording is that it does NOT
include the dance that often is played along with the Polovetsian Dances. I
think it is called "Dance of the Polovetsian Maidens" and it is always played
first when it appears. I mention this because it contains a lot of difficult
6/8 clarinet solos that I imagine Juliane will need to know. The set recorded
on by Szell begins with the slow dance.

As for whether the Szell is on CD, I simply don't know.

Recordings that include the first dance include the Shaw/Atlanta on Telarc
(also includes the choral parts). I think that there is a Baltimore/Zinman
one on Telarc also, which would be played by the outstanding Steve Barta.
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