Klarinet Archive - Posting 000107.txt from 2009/08

From: Paolo Leva <paolo.leva@-----.se>
Subj: [kl] BBC Building a library: Gran Partita
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:16:45 -0400

=0AI just received the latest "BBC Music" newspaper. Focus in the "Building=
a library" section is the Gran Partit(t)a. Since this piece is much loved =
and much discussed here I thought about sharing this with the list.=0AAntho=
ny Burton is the critic who wrote this and his selected "music choice" reco=
rding is by Linos Ensemble (1993, Capriccio) which is said to be currently =
unavailable but it is actually available on emusic. The "best of the rest" =
is by Albion Ensemble (1988, Helios), Harmonie de l'orchestre des Champs-El=
ys=E9es (Harmonia Mundi, also unavailable according to BBC but available on=
emusic), and Berlin Philarmonic Wind Ensemble (EMI).=0ASince I know nothin=
g about this Linos Ensemble (and not much about the other ensembles too, ex=
cept of course the Berliner) I was wondering if you know who is playing the=
clarinets and bassetts.=0AWhat do you make of this selection? I own a reco=
rdings by Amadeus Winds/Hogwood which never striked me as particularly exce=
ptional. I have other serenades played by the London Baroque Ensemble which=
I like much more, but I do not know if they recorded the Gran Partita as w=
ell.=0ACheers,=0APaolo

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