Klarinet Archive - Posting 000947.txt from 2000/06

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Conductors--Rant; Marcellus's Mozart Concerto
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 08:04:47 -0400

I suspect the original from which the LP version of the Kell recording was
transferred was not too good, with wow etc. being retained. Given the
most obvious characteristic of Kell's playing - the big vibrato - this was
probably the worst thing which could have happened.
Roger S.

On Fri, 23 Jun 2000 ShawThings@-----.com wrote:

> Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 06:58:36 EDT
> From: ShawThings@-----.com
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Conductors--Rant; Marcellus's Mozart Concerto
>
> In a message dated 23/06/00 6:34:21 PM AUS Eastern Standard Time,
> roger.shilcock@-----.uk writes:
>
> << This de Peyer recording is the one which set the parameters
> for all subsequent hearings of the Mozart concerto for me......
> Roger S. >>
>
> Me too! - The de Peyer/Maag recording was one of the few (possibly the only)
> one readily available (here, in Australia) when K622 was compulsory study on
> the 6th Grade music syllabus. I grew up with it and - rationally or
> otherwise- it remains permanently imprinted. Someone else on the list (?
> Leila Loban) suggested that there aren't any really BAD
> interpretations/recordings of K622 & I agree. I now own a few dozen of them
> on CD alone, including a reissue of the "fabulous" (in USA parlance)
> Marcellus/CSO version, an historic (1942) recording by Reginald Kell with
> Malcolm Sargeant conducting, a very recent version by Sabine Meyer/Abbado
> (1999) and one with Sharon Kam as soloist - all acquired within the last 12
> months.
> Each has its own merits although I'm still searching for any in the Kell
> version. I have the Kell Brahms repetoire on LP and enjoy it, but his
> interpretation of K622 seems bizarre to me - preconditioned by de Peyer's
> version - (AND the tuning of the strings is very approximate).
> Tony Pay's version is absolutely wonderful although my CD (but not LP)
> reissue seems to be so closely miced that some key noises (with only 5 or 6
> keys!) are irritating. As someone else recently mentioned, his phrasing and
> articulation are unequalled. I particularly like the "chugging" sound of his
> low reg arpegios in the 1st movt. How he manages to play so beautifully on
> an 18th century instrument is a source of constant wonder & envy. (Sorry, I
> seem to have digressed from the original thread, whatever it was).
> Tim Shaw
>
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