Klarinet Archive - Posting 000622.txt from 1997/06

From: fsheim@-----.com (Fred)
Subj: Re: Neidich Mozart
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 16:59:36 -0400

Just my 2 cents- I happen to like the Mercadante Bb concerto- its a light
diversion and very pleasant to play. Did you know he also wrote an Eb
concerto?- It too is very pleasant. Perhaps they are not as deep or moving
as the Spohr or Weber concertos, but I would rather have them than see them
disappear from the repertoire. PS: The Bb concerto is recorded on TUDOR
728 CD and on ICN POLYART ICN 008 CD, and the Eb concerto is recorded on ICN
POLYART ICN 008 CD. The Bb concerto had previously been recorded on LP's,
ITALIA ITL 70029 LP and CLAVES D 813 LP.

Fred (fsheim@-----.com)

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