Klarinet Archive - Posting 000052.txt from 2009/08

From: "Colin Touchin" <colin.touchin@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Mendelssohn Overture in C
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:48:03 -0400

There is a beautiful (slow intro) and electrifying (zippy Allegro at
prestissimo) performance recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra
under Claudio Abbado - as fresh and sparkling as the Midsummer Night's
Dream music. But all modern instruments of course - highly enjoyable:
really does show it is a fine work by a very young composer already
completely at ease with orchestration, harmonic tension and development,
melodic invention and wit. Colin Touchin.

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