Klarinet Archive - Posting 000670.txt from 2000/01

From: alevin@-----. Levin)
Subj: Re: [kl] Bb Clarinet part for Mozart clarinet quintet?
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 14:52:51 -0500

I tend to think that he was more like Acker Bilk - but with some technique!

Allen

At 12:34 PM 1/18/00 -0800, you wrote:
>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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