Klarinet Archive - Posting 000071.txt from 2010/05

From: corvo di bassetto <rab@-----.de>
Subj: Re: [kl] Bobbing and Mozart
Date: Sat, 08 May 2010 05:56:35 -0400

they play without conductor, so some gesturing, especially from the first violin, is reasonable. To me the performance sounds rather convincing and I especially like Coppola's playing even if I too could do with a little less "emotion".
Best wishes,
danyel

> Here is an interesting link I got from the Italian clarinet list:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbXnIBzxsEA
>
> The musicians are wonderful players, but so distracting with the
> ridiculous bobbing and looking at each other that I had to look
> away. Andre Rieu's group does the same thing and I hate it. It is
> disrespect for the music, or perhaps the feeling that the music
> cannot stand on its own and needs some sort of "entertaining"
> embellishment. Obviously aimed at the less sophisticated music
> listener. Wasn't it Toscanini that was very animated at his
> REHEARSALS to get his points across to the musicians, but at the
> actual performance he was very laid back, "to let the music speak for
> itself"? He was correct.
>
> On the other hand- I think this is the first time I saw the Mozart
> played on an ancient instrument- probably as Mozart would have heard
> it- I wonder what Mozart would have said if he heard it today on the
> modern clarinets. Maybe he would not have liked it. Who knows.
>
> Speaking about Mozart, I recently took a trip to Philadelphia to see
> the historic district (2 hour drive for me). I realized there that
> Mozart was alive at the same time as the birth of our country! Ben
> Franklin could have had lunch with him!!
>
> Don't know what brought this on- maybe I'm getting old :)
>
>
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