Klarinet Archive - Posting 000208.txt from 1997/10

From: Mark Charette <charette@-----.com>
Subj: Re: clarinet works
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 13:54:49 -0400

The only one I know I'd *have* to have with me isn't especially
a clarinet work, but one where the clarinet is prominent:

The 1983 recording of Scheherazade with the Philadelphia Orchestra,
Riccardo Muti conducting, Norman Carol on violin, and I don't
know who on clarinet. It was the very first classical work I
ever owned, and still brings tears to my eyes *every* time I
hear it (it's the reason I started listening to classical music -
it affected me that much). To my ears some of the finest ensemble
playing ever recorded - I don't even think about any particular
instrument being in the forefront, even the violin - one of the
times an orchestra becomes an instrument rather than just a
collection of instruments.
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