Klarinet Archive - Posting 000517.txt from 1997/06
From: "Steven M. Gorelick" <SMG@-----.edu> Subj: Re: Neidich Mozart Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 10:08:07 -0400
I started studying clarinet after hearing Neidich's K.622. Two
years now, and -- while it's harder than I thought -- still love
it.
Last fall in NYC, I heard Mr. Neidich do one of Spohr's Clarinet
Concertos. Very beatiful.
A few run of the mill questions for the group:
1) What do people think of Sabine Meyer's recording of 4 Stamitz
concertos?
2) Has anyone heard Benny Goodman's Weber #1 with the Chicago
symphony? Thoughts? What are people's favorite Weber #1 recordings?
3) Finally, I just heard an amazing recording of Saverio Mercadente's
Clarinet Concerto by an Italian player. A little more athletics than
music, but fascinating. Anybody heard this?
Steve
Date sent: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 20:42:27
- 0400 From: "David C. Blumberg" <reedman@-----.com>
Subject: Neidich Mozart
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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
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