Klarinet Archive - Posting 000320.txt from 2005/11

From: "Jim Lytthans" <lytthans@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] K. 622
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 17:32:49 -0500

Dan Leeson wrote:
<I no longer buy recordings of K. 622, because I've heard that piece before.
I
want someone to play it in a way in which I have not heard it before.>

I just received the recent (1999) EMI CD of Sabine Meyer doing the Mozart
with Claudio Abbado and the Berliner Philharmoniker. Her use of
ornamentation is very tasteful, and she adds her own (I think) cadenza in
the 2nd movement, plus a couple of other short cadenzas in the 1st and 3rd
movements. As with her other recordings, Meyer has the great ability to
bend arpeggios and scales, within the measure. Her incredible technique and
articulation doesn't hurt, either! All in all, a new approach to K. 622.
She uses a Wurlitzer Basset clarinet, BTW. What a wonderful sound!

On the CD are two other selection: (1) a gorgeous Debussy "Rhapsodie", done
effectively on a German System clarinet (it can be done, Michele!), and (2)
the Takaemitsu "Fantasma/Cantos". The EMI catalogue number is 7243 5 56832 2
9.

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Jim Lytthans
Anaheim, CA

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