Klarinet Archive - Posting 000629.txt from 2000/01

From: Neil Leupold <leupold_1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Bb Clarinet part for Mozart clarinet quintet?
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 01:47:48 -0500

The way you describe him, he sounds like an Eduard Brunner-type.

-- Neil

--- "Allen J. Levin" <alevin@-----.net> wrote:
> I remember being taught as "gospel" in the 60's and 70's that Muehlfeld's
> tone was thin and uncharacteristic of the clarinet. My recollection is
> that it was thought to be more string-like, and not what we would want or
> expect. (I've always suspected that the sound was somewhere between bad
> klezmer and bad Dixieland.) I remember no reference to volume. His forte
> was supposed to be technical facility.
>
> Allen Levin
>
> At 01:16 AM 1/17/00 GMT, you wrote:
> >On Sun, 16 Jan 2000 20:01:01 -0500, charette@-----.org said:
> >
> >> Tony wrote:
> >>
> >> > I think that the English musician was a viola player, and I remember
> >> > one phrase: he said that Muehlfeld's sound was "a joke" as far as he
> >> > was concerned.
> >>
> >> Perhaps the same violist that appears in "Clarinet" by Jack Brymer,
> >> though it doesn't seem to be that the violist thought of Muhlfeld's
> >> playing as a joke. (I have this quote on a section concerning Vibrato
> >> on http://www.sneezy.org/clarinet)
> >
> >[snip]
> >
> >Yes, I've clearly conflated two reports in my mind. Obviously this is
> >the viola player. And certainly the phrase "a warm tone" and the
> >adjective "fiery" go against the notion that Muehlfeld's tone was at all
> >weak.
> >
> >But I'm sure that there is a 'joke' comment from one listener. I
> >remember being very struck by it, perhaps even a bit shocked. But
> >perhaps, as David suggested, it was too loud for some, and *that* was
> >the joke. Charles Draper would, I think, have been the player
> >most providing the context for a contemporary British judgement.
> >
> >Tony
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