Klarinet Archive - Posting 000353.txt from 1998/01

From: Mark Charette <charette@-----.com>
Subj: Re: leister recording
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 17:18:35 -0500

GTGallant wrote:
>
> After hearing about Karl Leister over and over on the list and elsewhere, I
> stumbled upon a recording of the Mozart concerto. I was very displeased with
> what I heard. He has a nice, clear tone and plays evenly, but any
> professional worth their salt can, or should at minimum, be able to play even
> and clean. The playing lacked a sense of pacing, had NO dynamics other than
> mezzoforte, and was extremely dead.

<snip>

> Does anyone else feel the same, or am I alone?

Listening to a CD by Leister in the car recently (I don't know which one
-
it wasn't mine), I started laughing. My passenger wondered what I was
laughing about. I said that if I had a _really, really_ good sample of
clarinet for my MIDI card, and a _really, really_ good sequence for
for the player, this is what it'd sound like. Little warmth, little
expression.
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