Klarinet Archive - Posting 000190.txt from 1998/07

From: Kenneth Wolman <kwolman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] An old Gigliotti recording
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 08:53:06 -0400

At 08:10 PM 7/7/98 -0400, you wrote:
>I have the recording and it is Tabuteau. Unfortunately, I played it so many
>times that it is in rather poor condition. When I first heard the Gigliotti
>playing the Weber Concertino I immediately put him at the top of my list of
>clarinet greats. At the time I was 13 years old. Several years later I met
>him at the train station in Philadelphia and had a wonderful time visiting
>with him, as he waited for a train.
>
>The recording is ML 4629 on the Columbia label. Tabuteau performed the
>Handel Concerto No. # in G minor.
>
>Old recordings bring back old memories.

I still nominally own the vinyl recording, but it's at my ex-wife's house
and I don't have a turntable, anyway:-). And as I said, the recording is
SO shot that the last time I tried to play it, it was unlistenable.

I was about the same age as you when I heard the recording, in Junior High
and enduring a spectacularly lousy early adolescence. I played the
clarinet, yes, but I fell in love with the instrument because of Anthony M.
Gigliotti and how he played the Concertino. It's unfortunate that there is
so little of him around playing solo work. I found the 3-CD set of the
Philadelphia doing the Mozart woodwind concerti mainly for Gigliotti's
K.622 (no, here we DON'T go again!), and even though the Ormandy "sound" is
a bit too lush for Mozart. And there appears to be some recent chamber
piece he recorded a few years ago at Temple University.

I found the Deutsche Grammophon recording of the Concertino last night
played by Charles Neidich. It's the real deal: when the hair stands up on
my arms in the final section, I know I'm listening to something fabulous.
Emma Johnson's recording of it I find technically proficient and largely
unexciting. Why? Purely subjective reaction, and I can't justify it. I
love her Encores recording of short pieces.

Funny that you met Gigliotti. I once tried to. We had some kind of career
project in school (Waddya wanna be when you grow up), and I sent him a
letter asking to meet/interview him during the time that the Philadelphia
would be in New York. I addressed it to him not c/o the orchestra but to
an Anthony Gigliotti listed in the Philadelphia phone book. The stupidity
of an 8th grader.... Probably it was not the same man, because I believe
the "real" A. M. Gigliotti lives across the river in Cherry Hill, NJ. And
I'd STILL like to thank him for the gift he gave me.

Ken

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