Klarinet Archive - Posting 000873.txt from 2003/02

From: CBA <clarinet10001@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Tony Pay Mozart Quintet Recording
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 22:08:16 -0500

Bill,

Saint Saens' dates were from 1835-1921. Boehm clarinets appeared
around 1840 ish? He theoretically could have had a boehm
clarinets available to him most of his life then, so period
instruments wouldn't HAVE TO be graphically different than our
modern ones, would they? I know Albert system and Mueller (sp?)
system clarinets were still being used for quite a while after
1840, but they weren't as drastically different from boehm
clarinets as the ones from the 1700s were from boehm system.

I fully agree with the Saint Saens assessment. Wonderful stuff.

Kelly Abraham
Woodwinds - New York City
--- "B. Rite" <b1rite@-----.net> wrote:
> <><> Kelly wrote:
> I was unfamiliar of any non-period instrument recordings you
> had done
>
>
>
> This is Tony's question to answer, of course... but I enjoy
> his version
> of Saint Saens "Carnival of Animals" (on London).
>
> Of course, Saint Saens never wrote a bad piece of music -
> symphony,
> piano, concerto, etc --- imo.

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