Klarinet Archive - Posting 000773.txt from 2003/05

From: Dan Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Gran Partitta recording
Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 14:11:17 -0400

The recording with Harnoncourt is a particularly interesting
interpretation because he treats dotted rhythms as if they were double
dotted. I recorded it with members of the Toronto Symphony but it is
out of print. And I have written the notes for several recordings but
never heard the performances so I can't comment.

In general, any recording made before 1990 should be avoided because the
old 1875 edition of the music was still generally available.

Dan Leeson

Raycraft wrote:
> 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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