Klarinet Archive - Posting 000220.txt from 2003/09

From: "Ken Wolman" <kwolman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] von Weber's Concertino, Op 26
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 08:48:05 -0400

Rebecca Brennan wrote:

> Charles Neidich with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. It has The Concertino
> and Concertos 1 and 2, plus Rossini's Introduction Theme and Variations.

Got that one. Really fine. Also David Shifrin. I believe Sharon Kam
(Neidich's student at Juilliard, I think) has recorded it, but if she has,
I've not heard it yet. My favorite remains Gigliotti's with the
Philadelphia. Someone made me a tape of it about two years ago because my
copy of the "First Chair" vinyl was so worn that it was unplayable.
Gigliotti had something going that day: it has all the requisite virtuosity
the piece demands, but G. added an emotional quality and intensity that took
it way far from being playing a lot of notes really fast. That's the
recording that got me, in the 8th grade, to start practicing like I meant it.

I remember we had this discussion a couple of years ago--Sony apparently has
no interest in rereleasing the two First Chair recordings on CD. Apparently
even Gigliotti himself could not get them to budge. Economics uber alles.

Ken
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