Klarinet Archive - Posting 000015.txt from 2005/01

From: Tim Roberts <timr@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Your Hit Parade
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 12:34:54 -0500

I submitted this last week, but it was rejected for formatting problems....

_oOo_

The local classical station in Portland, Oregon, KBPS, has its listeners
submit their five favorite pieces of classical music every year in
December. They then assemble the top 100, through some carefully
engineered and scientifically precise formula, and play them in
countdown order in the days leading up to New Years Day.

Our favorite concerto, Mozart's K.622, came in #50 this year. The
performance they chose was Peter Schmidl with the Vienna Philmarmonic.
I had not heard this recording previously. Peter plays a standard
clarinet, and it is thanks to this mailing list that I now get irked
when I hear the places that should have basset notes, and they aren't there.

Peter's tone is very clear, but he is almost aggressive with his
dynamics. It's not bad, but it's quite different from some of the other
recordings I've heard. He does have one attribute I greatly admire:
there isn't any obvious difference in timbre when he changes registers.
Thea King shares this attribute. I've worked hard to make the same
thing happen in my playing. I'm not there yet...

Today (Wednesday 12/29), KBPS is running basically #49 through #30. In
that subset, there are three Mahler symphonies (#1, #2, #5). I find
that interesting.

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- Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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