Klarinet Archive - Posting 000779.txt from 2003/05

From: "Matthew Lloyd" <Matthew@-----.uk>
Subj: RE: [kl] Gran Partitta recording
Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 15:04:06 -0400

Forest - I know that - just thought it was amusing!

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From: Forest E. Aten Jr. [mailto:forestaten@-----.com]
Subject: Re: [kl] Gran Partitta recording

Simply add Partitta to your personal dictionary in Word.

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From: "Matthew Lloyd" <Matthew@-----.uk>
Subject: RE: [kl] Gran Partitta recording

> Furtwangler. Without a shadow of a doubt. And the London Wind lot are
> good too - that is Brymer's crew.
>
> A certain Mr. Pay (never heard of him I hear you say) is involved in
the
> one on the Phillips complete Mozart which is a good performance.
>
> But if I had to stick with one it would be Furtwangler. But who says
we
> can only have one?
>
> I'll post further details of all later for ordering purposes!
>
> On the question of the Concerto - I take it you know the de Peyer with
> Peter Maag? And the Brymer with Beecham? Wouldn't be without either.
The
> last evening I spent with my father before he died in late March we
were
> discussing this very alternative. Memories....
>
> Matthew
> (just a little tearful - even if he is sitting in the office)
>
> PS - and specifically for Dan. You know Micro$haft corrects Partitta
to
> Partita? You can forget all your learned reasons for the spelling of
> Partitta being correct - I'll go with you on the basis the alternative
> is Gates!!!!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Raycraft [mailto:raycraft@-----.com]
> Sent: 29 May 2003 18:15
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] Gran Partitta recording
>
> 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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