Klarinet Archive - Posting 000398.txt from 1997/06

From: "David C. Blumberg" <reedman@-----.com>
Subj: Neidich Mozart
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 20:42:27 -0400

Charlie's recording to me is tasteful, and brilliant. Not at all overdone.

Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 22:35:31 -0400
From: Ken Bryson <kbryson@-----.com>
Subject: Mozart K622--Oh, no, not again!

I too heard a recording of the concerto on the radio recently, but my
experience was quite different. I heard distinctive strains of the 1st
movement when I turned on the car radio, and was about to say "Oh, no,
not again" (terrible, but true--even Mozart, when overplayed, can become
unwelcome)--when suddenly, something took me by surprise. Notes I had
never heard before. Ornaments! More notes I hadn't heard before! What
was going on? I found myself intrigued, and my interest in the piece
reawakened. I listened with new ears to this rendition. And couldn't
wait to find out who had taken such daring (by my timid standards)
liberties with the sacred text. (I even kept my boss waiting in the
parking lot for a couple of minutes for the piece to end to find out who
this upstart could be.) Charles Neidich! Aha! Improvising! Anyone
familiar with this recording? Any comments on it?

Nancy

David C. Blumberg
reedman@-----.com