Klarinet Archive - Posting 000021.txt from 2006/03

From: "Lorraine" <redpepper@-----.uk>
Subj: RE: [kl] ] Re: Comparative perf. styles of Schumann's Fantasiestucke/ Soirrestucke
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 14:08:14 -0500

Hi Joseph,

Yes I think he does use period instruments (or replicas) on the =
recording - the recording as a whole is certainly an interesting =
collection of different pieces. The pianist is playing on a 1826 Conrad =
Graf Fortepiano so my thoughts are that he probably is but it just =
doesn't quite say for sure. =20

The source he quotes is from 'a photograph of Schumann's manuscript'.

Lorraine

I have just found hopefully a contact email address for Alan Hacker and =
have written and asked him this very question.

-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Wakeling [mailto:joseph.wakeling@-----.net]
Sent: 02 March 2006 17:09
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] ] Re: Comparative perf. styles of Schumann's
Fantasiestucke/ Soirrestucke

Lorraine wrote:
> He mentions on the liner about the C clarinet being used/"specified
> for the 2nd/3rd movements giving a new aural slant on the material
> introduced by the melancholy A clarinet". I am not sure whether to
> interpet this as what he is using on this recording or not. The
> recording is certainly quite different to any other recordings I have
> heard so far.

It sounds like a pretty good hint. :-) Still, I don't know the CD,
though I heard him perform the Hymn to the Sun itself once at a Purcell
Room concert. Does he use period instruments on the recording?

I'm sure someone on the list will know for sure. Whatever, does he give
much information about what the evidence is, references to scholarly
articles or whatever? Any such articles might well be by him, so it
might be worth checking out his scholarly publications to see if there's
something relevant.

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