Klarinet Archive - Posting 001394.txt from 2000/12

From: "Michael Bryant" <michael@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Kell and Mozart
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 23:42:18 -0500

Spelling error
For Sargeant, please read Sargent
With apologies
MB

I wrote: 30 December 2000 20:07, ref: Kell and Mozart

>Yes, I have copies of both (and all Kell's commercial recordings).
>
>The 78s set with the London Philharmonic Orchestra
>conducted by DR Malcolm Sargeant (album 34B) was issued in
>Britain in June 1940, with notes "About the Clarinet" and a Tovey-style
>analysis of the concerto (clarinet part music examples written at
>concert pitch) - in two forms:
>consecutive sides and auto HMV C 3167-70 and C 7543-6.
>It was something of a miracle considering how badly the two got along.
>Kell walked out of Sargeant's rehearsals at least twice.
>"Are you not going to play with us, Mr Kell?"
>
>Allegro sides 1-2-3,
>Adagio sides 4-5,
>Rondo sides 6-7,
>Schumann Fantasiestuecke Op 73/1 side 8 - with Gerald Moore
>
>The Zimbler Ensemble had no conductor. Its recording was issued
>in Britain in October 1956 as a 10 inch LP (Brunswick AXL 2002)
>
>Side 1 = M1
>Side 2 = M 2+3
>
>and March 1957 with the Brahms Trio as a 12 inch LP (AXTL 1071)
>
>[N.B. Brooks Smith died in California at 88, on 31st October 2000
>He was Heifetz's accompanist and recorded with Kell 2 unre-issued
>LPs for Decca DL 9926 and 9941]
>
>MB
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>Tony Paywrote about Kell and Mozart on 30 December 2000 16:52
>>
>>Lucky you, Abe!
>>
>>I have a history with this recording that I posted here once. Briefly,
>>I used to play along with just the one disc we owned (of some of the
>>last movement), speeded up (though I didn't know that at the time!) on
>>my Bb clarinet.
>>
>>I'd love to hear it now. Perhaps it's been transferred, or perhaps Mike
>>Bryant owns a copy. I'll ask him.
>>
>>How are the movements distributed across the discs?
>>
>>Tony
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