Klarinet Archive - Posting 000771.txt from 2003/05

From: "Raycraft" <raycraft@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Gran Partitta recording
Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 13:14:35 -0400

Since we are on the subject of CDs I would like to
know if anyone can recommend their favorite recordings
of the Gran Partitta.

I suppose this has probably been discussed before,
but I am feeling extremely lazy at the moment, and
don't want to take the time to search the Klarinet
archives.

The recording I have, which is the only version of it
that I have ever heard (I have live a sheltered life)
was recorded in 1993 by the Berliner Philharmoniker;
the clarinets were Karl Leister and Walter Seyfarth,
and Manfred Preis and Peter Geisler on basset horn.
I'd like to listen to some others also, since I realize
no two versions are going to be the same, and I don't
want to listen to just the one, and get that one permanently
imprinted in my brain, as though it were THE one.

When I was in high school, the only record album I ever
bought with my own money (when all the other kids were
listening to Santana and Yes and Grateful Dead and Alice
Cooper) was Benny Goodman's 1956 Tanglewood recording
of Mozart's clarinet concerto and quintet. Never heard anyone
else play it, and so when I finally did, they all sounded kinda
funny to me. That Goodman version is stuck in there quite
well. I can't get rid of it! I've heard it too many times! It's in
there forever!

I don't want this to happen with the Gran Partitta, so I'd
like to listen to more than just the one recording. Any
recommendations?
Thank you so much!!!!

Sue

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