Klarinet Archive - Posting 000907.txt from 2000/06

From: Lacy Schroeder <LacyS@-----.org>
Subj: RE: [kl] Mozart Concerto - Flame Bait
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 10:51:53 -0400

OH MY GOODNESS.....Someone else that actually doesn't think the Mozart
Concerto is all that!! I thought I was just some silent dissident.

Lacy Schroeder

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From: Kevin Fay (LCA) [mailto:kevinfay@-----.com]
Subject: [kl] Mozart Concerto - Flame Bait

William Wright wrote:

> I have a Stoltzman recording of Mozart's concerto (K622), and I'd
> like to buy someone else's recording who has a different interpretation.

Audrey replied:

<<<. . .I'd go for Sabine Mayer - she's a monster player/musician, but if
you have record/CD stores around, definitely go for Robert Marcellus with
the Cleveland Orchestra (Sony Classical SBK 62424)!>>>

Marcellus' recording is considered "definitive," "the standard" and/or
"boring" depending on who you talk to. If you check the archives, you'll
find heated discussion from all viewpoints.

I'd buy a version played on basset clarinet, the instrument for which the
concerto was written. More interesting. Both David Schifrin and Charlie
Neidich have recordings using "modern" basset clarinets (Charlie's rendition
has more notes). Alan Hacker has a recording done on a "period" instrument
-- or a reproduction thereof, I don't remember -- as does our own Tony Pay,
I believe. The recordings by Messrs. Hacker & Pay probably are more
"authentic" performances, if that matters to you -- at least they spent some
time thinking about it.

. . . now the flame part. The Mozart concerto is touted as some
masterwork; I believe someone on the list compared it to Da Vinci's Last
Supper. IMHO, not so -- I don't think it's a particularly good Mozart
concerto (compared, say, to the piano concerto # 23), and I really don't
consider it all that sacred, either. I find the second movement pretty, and
the rest rather trite. True, it's the only concerto he wrote for us, and
it's possibly the "best" we have until the 20th century; but that doesn't
make it a great piece of music.

Perhaps I've heard it too much, played by children, to enjoy it much
anymore.

kjf

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