Klarinet Archive - Posting 001175.txt from 1997/08

From: benevolent1@-----.com
Subj: Weber Recordings
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 18:47:41 -0400

In my recent quest for the recording that I was going to buy, I checked
with my friends and teachers to see which recording they had, in addition
to posting a query on the Q and A page. There were many opinions on
which recording was the best, most accurate, most beautiful, etc., and in
the end, I picked up a recording from my boyfriend's CD collection. I
was looking for his Robert Spring recording, and inadvertently picked up
a CD with Sabine Meyer on it. I put it in the player, and heard the most
beautiful and haunting clarinet piece I have ever heard. I went to the
local music store and bought my copy. I also bought a copy of her
playing the Mozart quintet. It (the Weber concerto) is what I listen to
when I need inspiration to play, or when I'm getting frustrated with the
All-State music. I am currently trying to work the piece up for whatever
(no competition in mind, I just want to be able to get through it without
making it sound horrible. Maybe when I have many more years of study,
I'll actually be able to play it well, but until then, it will be on the
practice burner). My favorite movement is the second. Wow! There just
aren't words enough to do it justice. It is a fabulous piece, and the
recording is just divine.

Sarah

>
>I assume many of the list have played or heard Weber's 1st Clarinet
>Concerto. Help: I can't get the darn thing out of my head. Some
>nights I play almost the whole thing in my head. (I can't play it on
>the clarinet.)
>
>Anyway, after hearing many performances, I finally heard Sabine
>Meyer. Very different. Beautiful. Anyone here have an opinion?
>
>Steve G.
>-------------------------
>Dr. Steven M. Gorelick
>Office of the President
>CUNY Graduate School
>33 West 42nd Street
>New York, New York 10036
>sent: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 23:23:05 -
>0700 (PDT) From: Nicholas Yuk Sing Yip <nyip@-----.edu>
>Subject: Re: Weber, Carl Maria Von or Weber, Carl Maria von
>To: klarinet@-----.us
>Send reply to: klarinet@-----.us
>
> I was looking around at a few pieces that I have by Carl Maria --on
>Weber, and have found out that most of the pieces, have the small "v".
>I
>also checked my Concord Desk Encyclopedia and have found the small "v'
>
>in use too. However in a couple of music history books I have noticed
>the
>big "V". I assumed that both were accepatable.:)
>Nick Yip
>