Klarinet Archive - Posting 000416.txt from 1997/11

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: Mozart Symphony 40
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 06:24:48 -0500

> From: MX%"klarinet@-----.84
> Subj: Mozart Symphony 40

> My teacher recommended that I try to find a recording of Mozart Symphony
> #40, recorded by George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra with Robert
> Marcellus.
> I found a listing of a Sony disc with the Cleveland Orchestra. (Sony ED 3BK
> 46333). Does anybody know if this is the one? Ony other recommendations?
>
> Thanks
> Janet

It is not at all clear why your teacher recommended a recording of
Mozart 40 with Marcellus on it. The clarinet parts in the work
are very lovely but there is little to enable one to distinguish
a great artist like Marcellus from another great artist. The
clarinets are used mostly texturally.

There is the added problem that Mozart 40 exists in two version,
namely with and without clarinets and you might accidentally
purchase the wrong version (if Szell recorded that one, too) and
look for something that does not exist on that recording. It
will probably not say on the jacket that this is the version without
clarinets.

But as a general rule of thumb, if Szell recorded the work with
the Cleveland, and if he recorded the clarinet version, Marcellus
is probably one of the two clarinet players on the disk.

Are you sure that your teacher said "Mozart 40"?

>
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Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
Rosanne Leeson, Los Altos, California
leeson@-----.edu
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