Klarinet Archive - Posting 000449.txt from 1996/10

From: "Jeroen T. Salm" <jtsalm@-----.nl>
Subj: Re: Brahms Trio ---aside: Leister
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 05:40:26 -0400

Dear Everette,

You wrote:

Dear Jeroen,
I have a DGG Lp of Karl Leister playing the Brahms trio, with the horn
trio on the other side and it is the same that is in the DGG CD set. This
recording was made in 1968. It sounds like the trio version you have on
LP is newer: what label is it on ?
As an aside, I personally like all the early recordings Leister made
better, mostly because of his sound then. Not that I do not like his
sound now (I have lots of his recordings), but his earlier sound seems
more flexible, clearer, with more edge-well...more French...
Everett Austin

Well, I have (besides the recording you mentioned) a newer one, but at the
moment I can't get into my CD-collection and database. I know for sure it's on
a digital-rocording LP from Deutsche Gramophon (DG). I once had searched for a
CD version of it, but it wasn't available.

I personally like Leisters style more, after his change, i.e. to the French (!)
Vandoren reeds (german cut, #2,5). It was in the time Sabine Meyer came to the
BPO, 1980 or so. I thought his style before that date very German: a bright
sound, but you hear the resistence of the reeds (quite heavy), not a mellow
sound, not so flexible (also in tuning).
After his change it became "darker", more flexible, more capable of mingling
with other instruments, more in tune, a sound that doesn't penetrate but is
radiant (is this a Englisch word?), instead of a "laser-tone".
I have the feeling, it became a more international sound: not typically german
or French. Even Dieter Kloecker changed a bit to that sound. Also I find the
sound by the first/solo clarinet from the Chacago symph. lots alike the sound
of Karl Leister nowadays. Also the sound of Anthony Pay (on modern clarinets)
is like the sound of leister (I know, from Anthony Pay, he likes leister a
lot!).

I think I have all the leister recordings, but does anyone know if there is a
recording by Leister from:
-Schumann (fantasiestucke, romances)
-Bartok (Contrasts)
-Strawinsky: l"histoire
three pieces
-Bruch: concerto with viola
pieces for cl, pi, viola
-Strauss: concerto with bassoon
-Francais' concerto
-Nielsen concerto
-Messiaen's Quatour
-Rhapsodie in blue (with orchestra) gershwin

If you know of some recordings, please try to find the labels (and numbers). The
Japan recordings are not available here in the netherlands, but I can try to
purchase them by the Net in the US...

OK,
bey for now
hapy clarinet-studying! :-)

Jeroen T. Salm
The Netherlands