Klarinet Archive - Posting 000896.txt from 2003/02

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] Tony Pay Mozart Quintet Recording
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 22:08:39 -0500

On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 17:58:02 -0800 (PST), clarinet10001@-----.com said:

> Tony,
>
> I was listening to the radio on Sunday, and heard a recording that I
> couldn't place the player while I was listening. The clarinettist was
> NOT using a basset clarinet, and I just couldn't place the sound
> characteristics and style with a performer (something I have been
> getting better at, but still lacking at getting it right 100% of the
> time.)
>
> Didn't you make some recordings with Neville Marriner a while back
> that covered the whole Mozart compendium?
>
> They announced at the end that it was you, but gave no more
> information about the recording, or who played strings, etc. It was a
> very nice recording, but a different feel from what I am used to when
> hearing on your recordings (apples and oranges, not good and bad.)

It was a recording made in 1979(?) with the Academy of
Saint-Martin-in-the-Fields chamber ensemble. I think I played on a
Buffet R13. The string players were, Iona Brown and Malcolm Latchem,
violins, Stephen Shingles, viola, and Denis Vigay, cello.

> I was curious to know...how many different recordings of the Mozart
> Cl. Quintet have you performed on, and which one would this one have
> been, if the regular clarinet part narrows it down any? Have you made
> more recordings on traditional clarinet of Mozart?

There are two of the quintet, including this one, and there is another
one of the concerto, but only on video, a live recording with the London
Sinfonietta and Chailly. I've never seen that, BTW, and I don't think I
was ever paid for it either:-(

> I was unfamiliar of any non-period instrument recordings you had done
> previously to hearing this on the radio (ignorant me) so I was
> interested in this one from the standpoint of how it is different to
> make a period recordings as opposed to non-period recordings
> (instrumental wise.)

It's just a bit more difficult on a period instrument, because one is
more 'challenged' technically.

On modern instruments, there were:

Beethoven Septet, Schubert Octet (ASM chamber ensemble, as above)

Berio Concertino with London Sinfonietta & Berio

Spohr I and II with London Sinfonietta and Atherton

Lots of Schoenberg with London Sinfonietta, plus Pierrot Lunaire with
Boulez and Barenboim, Pierrot Lunaire with Cleo Laine and Nash Ensemble,
Pierrot Lunaire with Simon Rattle, Jane Manning and Nash Ensemble. Plus
all of the chamber music on CRD that you can find on the gmn website in
my sig.

Much of this was only on vinyl.

Tony
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