Klarinet Archive - Posting 001148.txt from 1999/04

From: HatNYC62@-----.com
Subj: [kl] Bizarre recording review
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 21:04:19 -0400

I just saw this in a review of an old but very famous (and expensive on the
original vinyl) recording of Petrushka by Ansermet and his Suiss orchestra.
Shows how little music critics know about what conductors do and do not have
control over (especially when splicing was not so easy as it is now)

"During auditioning, I noted that the two clarinets playing in the clarino
register in the passage called The Bear were painfully out of tune.
Optimistically, I take the view that Ansermet wanted them to be slightly out
of tune with each other to emphasize the pathos and pain of the episode. This
is the level of intensity Stravinsky's music demands - controlled chaos."

David Hattner, NYC

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