Klarinet Archive - Posting 000899.txt from 2000/06

From: ShawThings@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Mozart Concerto - Flame Bait
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 02:22:37 -0400

In a message dated 22/06/2000 13:08:05 AUS Eastern Standard Time,
pc12@-----.edu writes:

>Isn't Meyer's version also on the basset clarinet?

There are two versions by (Sabine) Meyer - one recorded in 1990 with
Staatskapelle Dresden under Hans Vonk, the other with Berlin Phil & Claudio
Abbado in 1999.
(EMI 7243 5 6689 2 5 and 7243 5 56832 2 9 respectively.
She uses a (modern) basset clarinet on both.
Both are terrific I think, but the coupling on the 1999 version is more
interesting - Fantasma/Cantos by Toru Takemitsu.

>In any case, Shifrin's recording is wonderful.

I agree

>I can't say that I enjoyed the Marcellus recording much though. It's
too....normal?

I agree with this too - but at the time it was probably refreshingly normal
after Reginald Kell's 1942 version which I first heard only about year ago
when I found it really alarming.
I wonder why Kell was so highly regarded in his time.
Tim Shaw

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