Klarinet Archive - Posting 000149.txt from 2007/09

From: Sean Osborn <feanor33@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Neilsen Concerto Puzzelment
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 13:51:51 -0400


>Nobody has mentioned the Finzi concerto. This is another wonderful piece
>that I have never heard live.
>
>David Lamb in Seattle

Well, David, you're in luck, because I'm performing it on October
19th and 20th in Port Angeles and Sequim. http://www.olypen.com/pasymphony/

As for why I think the Nielsen is best, there are a number of
reasons, and I will do my best to articulate them here, early in the
morning, as I rush around before my afternoon concert....

The Nielsen is the most emotionally-all-encompasing concerto we
have. It has everything: sadness, joy, melancholy, depression,
anger, manic, delight, fun, confusion, and more; and it expresses it
more directly (and therefore better) than any other concerto. I find
that it's emotional range and message makes it so relative to human
existance, which I think makes it better. I also think its
construction is fairly perfect as well. Playing feels like I've run
a marathon, and not because of the technical challanges which are
difficult but not as hard as Francaix, Milhaud, Corigliano, or even
Daphnis and Chloe, but because of the way you have to change emotions
so completely and convincingly, often on the turn of a dime. I find
this challange to be very fulfilling also. While there are many fine
recordings of it, there are no recordings I know of that speak fully
to this approach to the piece, so perhaps some of you haven't looked
at the Nielsen Concerto this way. I urge you to give it another look.

Cheers,

Sean Osborn

www.osbornmusic.com

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