Klarinet Archive - Posting 000595.txt from 2004/07

From: Georg.Kuehner@-----.de (Georg K=?ISO-8859-1?B?/A==?=hner)
Subj: Re: [kl] clarinetists Feidmann
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 03:42:22 -0400

I like Feidmann very much!

But what is really interesting about his playing:

People always talk about what they saw and afterwards about the sound ...

Is he a performing artist or a musician at first hand? Or both? :-))
Gru=DF Georg K=FChner

Georg K=FChner
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Salonorchester an der P=E4dagogischen Hochschule HD
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Am 15.07.2004 23:41 Uhr schrieb "chamberlaind@-----.net" unter
<chamberlaind@-----.net>:

> Yes, of course Feidman is absolutely amazing too. I heard and saw him in
> concert a local Atlanta Synagougue several years ago. I have never heard
> anyone play pianissimo like he can. He raises the hair on the back of you=
r
> neck.
>=20
> Kim C
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ken Wolman" <kwolman@-----.com>
> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 3:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [kl] clarinetists
>=20
>=20
>> chamberlaind@-----.net wrote:
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>>> Ton:
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>>> As far as jazz is concerned, my absolute favorite clarinetist is Buddy
>>> DeFranco. Eddie Daniels is considered the best of this generation but I
>>> prefer Buddy DeFranco because he uses the entire range of the clarinet
> and
>>> plays with the top notch jazz musicians. Check Amazon. com or CD now.
> Eddie
>>> Daniels is amazing both technically and musically. He often combines
>>> classical approaches with jazz for a very unique sound. There are
> several
>>> recordings out there.
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>> Delurking for a moment.
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>> DeFranco and Daniels are both wonderful. But...to reprise my positive
>> rant after seeing/hearing him in New York last fall...Giora Feidman.
>> True, you cannot get the performer in Feidman unless you see him in a
>> live performance, but as a musician who plays a "fusion" style of
>> Argentinian tango and Klezmer, he's not only alone, he's unsurpassable.
>> He is classically trained (former bass clarinetist of the Israel
>> Philharmonic). There is a lot of stuff out there, sometimes it is old
>> and very hard to find. Check the "usual suspects" stateside, but also
>> look for current Feidman stuff is on his website,
>> http://www.giorafeidman.de. You link from the current recordings to
>> Amazon.de, which has them in stock for the absurd prices you would
>> expect based on the dollar-euro exchange. Or you go direct to
>> www.amazon.de. One CD (my favorite) is called TangoKlezmer with a
>> quartet that includes a wonderful bandoneon player named Raul Jaurena
>> who also doubles as composer and arranger on that CD and on the Feidman
>> Plays Piazzolla recording. There is also a Mozart CD, a CD of the
>> composer Ora Bat Chaim, and things that it's much harder to obtain in
>> the States. The caveat with ordering from Germany is you pay rather
>> handsomely for the music even with the VAT removed, and then there's the
>> shipping charge. Plus you have to be able to fake a few words in
> German:-).
>>=20
>> Worth it, worth it, worth it.
>>=20
>> ken
>> --=20
>> Kenneth Wolman
>> Proposal Development Department
>> Room SW334
>> Sarnoff Corporation
>> 609-734-2538
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