Klarinet Archive - Posting 000091.txt from 2009/10

From: "Dan Leeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Lorenzo Coppola plays K. 622
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:12:35 -0400

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja8mbwpAZwU&feature=related

The performance is interesting because of five respects. First, the
orchestra is entirely original instruments (or else contemporary copies of
same) including 18th century bows; second, the pitch of the performance is
considerably lower than that to which I am accustomed (though I am not
critical of this aspect of the performance); third, the basset clarinet used
appears to be an accurate copy of the one owned by Stadler himself, which is
concluded from the fact that the bell is at a right angle to the body of the
instrument and with a very primitive arrangement of holes and only a few
keys , just as was shown on a lithograph of Stadler's instrument in a
program done in one of the Balkan countries at the time he played a
performance of K. 622.; fourth, the character of the clarinet's sound is
measurably more stuffy and contained than I am used to (though not
unpleasant); and fifth, the brunette playing the flute is gorgeous.

Can anyone tell me something about the soloist, Coppola?

Dan Leeson
dnleeson@-----.net

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