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Author: Jeff
Date: 2003-02-14 04:23
I'm looking for good recordings of this piece. I'm playing it next....scary scary thought! As a side note, I'd like to know what the fastest recording you've ever heard is, and how fast was it? Trying to find myself a good tempo...and wondering if I need to learn how to double tongue :o)
Thanks,
Jeff
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Author: Keil
Date: 2003-02-14 04:38
Robert Springs recoriding of it goes pretty fast and yes, he double tongues, however, that is definitely NOT a prerequisite for playing this piece. It's more than doable at a fast tempo single tongued... just practice it up. I have a recording of Eduard Brunner playing it. Pretty decent.
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Author: Mitch K.
Date: 2003-02-14 05:40
I have both Robert Spring and Charles Neidich playing this piece.
Don't dwell on what tempo is taken on the recordings; find the tempo that lets you express the musical ideas you want to present. This piece is opera for the clarinet, and if there's one thing I've learned from playing in multiple opera pits is that no two singers sing the same role the same. I've played "Suor Angelica," "Tosca," and "Don Giovanni" a couple times each and different singers do it differently: tempos, dynamics, and style.
Be a diva. (Just don't get fired from the Met!) :-)
Mitch King
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Author: Mark Sloss
Date: 2003-02-14 12:30
Been a long time since I pulled it off the shelf, but my recollection is Stolzman's was pretty solid. Fairly early in his career, so representative of his early timbral concept, and of course technique out the you-know-what.
Jeff, the right tempo is the one where you can play it cleanly and musically. Those final variations need to be light and fluid, and that just won't happen if you are straining outside your comfort zone.
Have fun with it, and remember most of the recordings you hear are spliced, so don't hold yourself to an unreasonable standard.
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Author: Bob
Date: 2003-02-14 16:56
I recently purchased the Neidich and think he's great. Can't give you any advice,however.
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Author: Hiroshi
Date: 2003-02-14 20:48
Michel Arrignon.
Rossini needs more brighter tones.Italians may be even better.
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Author: Marina
Date: 2003-02-15 06:20
All I can say is "Sabine Meyer - A Night at the Opera".
Fantastic!!!
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Author: nzdonald
Date: 2003-02-15 10:13
Alessandro Carbonare, on the virtually impossible to get CD with the Mozart concerto and both the Rossini Theme and Variation type pieces.....
this is truly operatic, and has some unusual (read as, "individual") touches in the 3rd variation (the point at which i usually start to get bored) that add a lot of charm to the piece.
it's a real pity that this recording is so hard to get
others?
the Gervase dePayer recording is also really good..... i'm not fond of the way his tone has gone in the last decade, and i don't like his 1970's recordings either.... but this was recorded in the middle and while there are some sloppy moments, it's a pretty darn musical performance. Plus it's an "induvidual" sound, big and round with the suggestion of vibrato without an actual wobble- but it's not really obnoxiously wide and unfocussed. This piece has the potential to be boring as hell, so a bit of "charm" will go a long way, yep, this piece definately needs "charm"
donald
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