Klarinet Archive - Posting 001008.txt from 1999/09

From: Richard Bush <rbushidioglot@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] "Definitive" Recordings (Was 2025 Mozart)
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 18:09:04 -0400

Kevin,

Would you please be so kind as to tell us the CD label and Catalog number of
the Gabrielli reissue.

BTW, when I really want to kick start my day, I put on Glen Gould's Goldberg
Variations. I'm good 'till 4:00 pm on this 6:00 am opiate.

"Kevin Fay (LCA)" wrote:

> Mario/KlarBoy noted:
>
> <<<I believe that certain artist are more in tune with their own times, and
> hence are more "dated" by their interpretations, while other artists are
> better able to transcend their times and give us something great and
> lasting. . . . [lists favorite recordings]
>
> While these recordings do not often reflect the current scholarship of
> period performance practice (especially the Mozart
> works) they have a virtuosity that gives them such amazing clarity and
> brilliance that I will never tire of listening to them.>>>
>
> This is an interesting thread -- and could get "interestinger."
>
> Clearly, the early recordings of Toscanini can't compare with today's
> recordings. Starting in the mid- to late 1950's, however, recording
> technology got to the point where we can now intelligently compare
> performances with modern ones. To be sure, modern recording technology
> might get every grunt, burp and key click better, but at least we can
> compare tone quality and artistic interpretation (which wasn't possible when
> recordings had time constraints of the old 78s).
>
> I agree with Mario -- there are some recordings that are so dang good as to
> be considered "definitive," despite what some will say are anachronistic
> performance practices. I agree w/ Mario that Glenn Gould's Bach recording
> (on piano--the horror!) is such an example. Two others come to my mind.
>
> The first is a recording done by a bunch of brassholes in the mid-1960's.
> The brass sections of Philly, Boston & Chicago got together, played for 9
> hours (without tuning up, and according to the liner notes, on the way to a
> tavern) and produced a fantastic album of Gabrielli. Others have tried to
> cover these tunes, and IMHO none have come close. I wore out 2 vinyl
> copies, and was overjoyed to see that it has been reissued on CD. So I
> bought 2.
>
> The second is Jascha Heifetz's recording of the Tchaikovsky violin concerto
> w/ Fritz Reiner & the Chicago band from 1957. Apparently, he was supposed
> to be old & washed up when this was released. This recording is so stinkin'
> good I seriously question the judgment of anyone else who has subsequently
> recorded it -- none, in my humble opinion, are even in the same ballpark.
> Why prove you're second fiddle? (Sorry, couldn't resist).
>
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