Klarinet Archive - Posting 000942.txt from 2000/06

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: RE: [kl] Conductors--Rant; Marcellus's Mozart Concerto
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 04:32:58 -0400

This de Peyer recording is the one which set the parameters
for all subsequent hearings of the Mozart concerto for me......
Roger S.

On Thu, 22 Jun 2000 MVinquist@-----.com wrote:

> Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 20:02:33 EDT
> From: MVinquist@-----.com
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: RE: [kl] Conductors--Rant; Marcellus's Mozart Concerto
>
> I was at Oberlin at the time the Marcellus Mozart Concerto was recorded and
> went to a live performance at Severance Hall. Marcellus sat in a chair with
> the music in front of him, in the position where the concertmaster would
> normally sit -- that is, within the orchestra rather than in front.
>
> I heard that he could not play standing because severe diabetes had loosened
> his teeth. However, I was still surprised that he read from the printed
> music and did not position himself as a soloist. Also, he watched Szell for
> every entrance. At the cadenza in the slow movement, they turned to face one
> another, locked eyes, and Szell conducted each note individually.
>
> The recording was made at that time and is perfect in every way, but has a
> reverential air about it that keeps the phrases from breathing. For an
> anodyne, listen to the first recording made by Gervase De Peyer, with Anthony
> Collins conducting the London Philharmonic (I think), from the late 1950s
> when De Peyer was in his glorious prime. It has recently been reissued on
> CD. Every phrase is alive and breathing and fits naturally with the next. I
> have over 100 recordings of K. 622, and to my mind, this is the best ever.
>
> Best regards.
>
> Ken Shaw
>
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