Klarinet Archive - Posting 000916.txt from 2000/12

From: Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Schubert Octet
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 19:00:11 -0500

Interesting that you should mention that, Tony. I had heard Alfred
Boskovsky, but really paid very little attention to him. I don't know
why. Perhaps because I thought that the fiddle player in the family
(Willy) was one of the most astounding musicians I ever heard and I
figured that there couldn't be two great ones in the family. Clearly I
may have misjudged him. When did Wlach stop playing in Vienna?

Tony Pay wrote:
>
> On Sat, 16 Dec 2000 15:02:22 -0800, leeson0@-----.net said:
>
> > Recently I had a yen to hear the Schubert Octet, so I went in to the
> > local Wherehouse and got a recording with Willy Boskovsky and the
> > Vienna Octet. On listening to it, I was captivated by the exquisite
> > clarinet playing and examined the recording (a CDROM, of course), only
> > to find that, except for Boskovsky, no names are given.
>
> [snip]
>
> > Does anyone know who might be playing clarinet on a recording of the
> > work made in 1953 in Lugano, Switzerland?
>
> I'd say, Alfred Boskovsky. I'm not certain, though. Mike Bryant will
> know.
>
> > Who was 1st clarinet in the Vienna Phil. at that time. Boskovsky was
> > playing the violin of course, and I know that he had a brother who
> > played clarinet, though I have no idea who the masterful clarinetist
> > was on the recording.
>
> I'm surprised that you don't know Alfred in a more definite way than
> that, Dan. Although I haven't investigated recordings of the Mozart V
> or Brahms V for many years, I recall thinking that Alfred Boskovsky's
> performances of both of those pieces were really outstanding. I once
> owned 12 recordings of the Brahms V, and played all of them up to the
> double bar on a really silly evening. I thought that Boskovsky's was
> the best.
>
> The Mozart of course, is, or so I thought at the time, canonical.
> Perhaps I'd think differently if I heard it now.
>
> Of course, it wasn't the most original performance....or the most fooled
> about with performance....
>
> Tony
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