Klarinet Archive - Posting 000022.txt from 2006/03

From: Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] ] Re: Comparative perf. styles of Schumann's Fantasiestucke/
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 14:41:04 -0500

Lorraine wrote:
> 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.

OK. It doesn't give the instrument details somewhere hidden away among
the credits, then? The recording of his I have of Mendelssohn clarinet
works gives the techy stuff about all the instruments somewhere
alongside the credits for recording engineers and studios and so on.

I once saw Alan Hacker give a period instrument performance of John
Cage's clarinet sonata. That is, he played it on a 1930s instrument of
similar type to the one that Cage (himself a clarinettist) would have
owned at the time.

Lest anyone laugh and say, "What? An ordinary Boehm clarinet, you
mean?", some people on this list have sworn by those early-20th-century
instruments. ;-)

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