Klarinet Archive - Posting 000960.txt from 1999/05

From: Ken Wolman <Ken.Wolman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] re: Gigliotti on a Buffet
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 08:39:19 -0400

reedman@-----.com wrote:

> Well, there was a period that Tony was playing on his equipment that was
> still in development (Mouthpiece and Clarinet). I listen to some of the
> older Phila. Orch recordings, and I think there is quite a difference
> between the later sound, and the earlier sound that he was getting. I much
> prefer the later sound (and I don't mean due to the recording technology).
> But again - players will basically sound like they do regardless of
> equipment used. It's the player - not the instrument that makes the
> difference. The instrument will make the job easier, but the sound concept
> remains the same.

As I've said, I think, my first experience hearing classical clarinet
was in 1957, a recording of Gigliotti playing the Weber Concertino on a
disc called "First Chair," a special Columbia release sold for the
benefit of the orchestra's pension fund. (This recording was SO old
that Marcel Tabeteau was still the principal oboe.) Maybe it's
nostalgia, but Gigliotti's remains the most spectacular recording of the
piece I've ever heard: Neidich comes close but it's not the same thing,
and Emma Johnson doesn't sound like she's playing the same music. All I
have left of the Gigliotti recording are impressions: besides an
incredible technique, the sound he produced seemed to me just huge.
Assuming the recording was made somewhere around 1955, what would he
have been playing? My guess was a Selmer Centered Tone (geez, why don't
*I* sound like that??:-) with that .587(?) bore.

I gather the 10G was built to his specifications. I've not played on
it, but I've played on the Recital, and if I weren't happy with the CT,
I'd buy one in a second.

Again...an old question...WAS that recording of the Weber ever released
anyplace else?

Ken
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Ken Wolman dbtrader Deutsche Bank, N.A.
1251 Sixth Avenue New York, NY 10019 212-469-6494

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