Klarinet Archive - Posting 000219.txt from 1999/10

From: CmdrHerel@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Funny Nielsen recording
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 03:54:42 -0400

In a message dated 10/8/99 12:26:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
gtgallant@-----.com writes:

<< I just bought a cd of Benny Goodman playing the
Nielsen Concerto. What a horrible
performance/recording!!! He must have had a huge ego
problem to think he could record -or even perform -
the piece! He nailed only abot 30% of the notes,
played at about 1/2 to 2/3 the real tempi, and had a
gross, unfocused sound. Poor Mr. Nielsen! Benny
should have stuck to jazz. I't would be interesting
to know what Goodman was thinking when he thought he
could play "legit"!! This cd is the worst classical
recording I own (takes the spot of Leister's Mozart,)
and I'm strangely proud to own it!

BTW, I've heard his Mozart and it equally bites!!! :) >>

Benny's recording of the Bartok Contrasts is invaluable to me. As is the
Bernstein Prelude Fugue and Riffs. And the Ebony Concerto, and the Gould...
Are these not "legit" works?

If this man "stuck to jazz" my life would be less rich today.

Teri Herel

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