Klarinet Archive - Posting 000614.txt from 1997/06

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: Neidich Mozart
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 16:59:28 -0400

On Mercadante: He was probably Verdi's main rival on the Italian opera
scene during the the middle part of his (Verdi's) career - his concerto
was exhumed by our very own Queen Emma, as far as I know, and published
over here at about the same time. It would take a VERY good player &
performance to make
me (if that counts) buy a record of it; IMHO, it;s not a very marvellous
addition to the repertoire.
Roger Shilcock

On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Steven M. Gorelick wrote:

> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 10:08:07 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "Steven M. Gorelick" <SMG@-----.edu>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.us
> To: klarinet@-----.us
> Subject: Re: Neidich Mozart
>
> 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
> To: klarinet@-----.us
> Send reply to: klarinet@-----.us
>
> 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
>