Klarinet Archive - Posting 000478.txt from 1999/11

From: John Dablin <johnd@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] De Peyer Style
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 11:39:57 -0500

Michael Bryant wrote (re Gervase de Peyer):-
> His sense of rhythm and rhetoric is perfect.
> His great talent is to play joined-up music.
> It flows, it has momentum. He is an instinctive interpreter.
> Some clarinettists are overflowing with ideas as to how works should be
> played
> but as he has himself observed, he does not have ideas, he has convictions.
This is an excellent summary of everything that made Gervase de Peyer my
clarinetist hero in the 60s, so I was excited when I turned on the radio
while driving home to hear him interviewed on the BBC radio 3 "In Tune"
programme (it must have been 14th July preceding his Wigmore Hall
recital). He went on to play the last movement of the Poulenc sonata,
and I was bitterly disappointed. Even making allowances for listening
in the car I thought his sound was awful, and I'd swear there were some
wrong notes. It sounds as if he'd perked up by the time he got to the
Wigmore Hall.

I suppose I shouldn't criticise, I couldn't play the Poulenc in private,
let alone on the radio, but I just didn't enjoy it. At least I have
some recordings of him in his prime to remind me of what inspired me.
--
John Dablin
Aylesbury UK

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