Klarinet Archive - Posting 000880.txt from 2003/02

From: CBA <clarinet10001@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Tony Pay Mozart Quintet Recording
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 22:08:23 -0500

Bill,

I was referring to both. If an 1886 clarinet didn't have an
appreciable difference in sound from a 1980s clarinet, then why
would a "period" clarinet be necessary? Carnival of the Animals
was written in 1886 if I recall correctly.

Regardless of if it was recorded in 1980 or today, a "period"
clarinet wouldn't be necessary if it would bear few differences
from the clarinet we would buy today having virtually the same
sound, I think. It makes a huge difference when using a very
different type clarinet, basset clarinet, or basset horn used
during Mozart's time (or replica of the same) as we can hear the
difference in the timbre and facility of the instrument.

Maybe *I* misunderstood and am lost in your reply?

Kelly Abraham
Woodwinds - New York City
--- "B. Rite" <b1rite@-----.net> wrote:
> <><> 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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