Klarinet Archive - Posting 000213.txt from 1997/10

From: "David C. Blumberg" <reedman@-----.com>
Subj: re:Scheherazade- Phila. recording
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 13:54:54 -0400

It's Tony Gigliotti on Principal, and Don Montanaro playing the 2nd
Clarinet part (one of the longest 2nd clarinet exposed passages in the rep.)

MARK C. wrote:
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1997 23:02:10 -0400
From: Mark Charette <charette@-----.com>
Subject: Re: clarinet works

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.
David C. Blumberg
reedman@-----.com
http://sneezy.mika.com/OCR/reviews/reviews.html
http://sneezy.mika.com/clarinet/Music/Blumberg.html