Klarinet Archive - Posting 000878.txt from 2003/02

From: b1rite@-----. Rite)
Subj: Re: [kl] Tony Pay Mozart Quintet Recording
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 22:08:21 -0500

<><> He [Saint-Saens] theoretically could have had a Boehm clarinet
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 misunderstood you. I thought you were referring to the instrument
used to make the recording --- not the instrument for which the composer
wrote.

By the way, this Carnival recording was made in 1980. So perhaps it is
one of Tony's first recordings for a major label. Tony usually
declines to talk about his own recordings, but I can't help wondering
how he feels about it, or what memories it summons for him, 23 years
later.... hmmmm.... ???

<good-natured grin>

Cheers,
Bill

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