Klarinet Archive - Posting 000515.txt from 1998/11

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Oh frabjous day!!
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 04:15:36 -0500

As regards pianos, hearing Schubert, Chopin and Brahms played on
instruments of the kind they expected to be used for their music is
revealing, too.
Roger S.

On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu wrote:

> Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 14:26:16 -1300
> From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Oh frabjous day!!
>
> > From: MX%"klarinet@-----.65
> > Subj: Re: [kl] Oh frabjous day!!
>
> >
> > In a message dated 11/10/98 10:50:31 PM, leeson@-----.edu writes:
> >
> > <<Accompanying Levin, who will be playing on an 18th century piano is
> > an orchestra of original instruments >>
> >
> > I understand perhaps playing a concert on original instruments gives a feeling
> > of authenticity to a work, but why else would musicians play on period
> > insturments? I am not asking this question as a put down to period
> > instruments, but out of total curiosity.
>
> There are those who believe that music of the 18th century cannot
> be heard as it was intended to be heard unless it is played on
> instruments of the period. I am certainly of that opinion with
> respect to Mozart era piano. There are technical and acoustical
> reasons why it sounds differently, and those differences make it
> better for me.
>
>
> >
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> >
> =======================================
> Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
> leeson@-----.edu
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