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Author: realnewton
Date: 2005-11-09 16:30
Hi everyboy,
I've been asked about the first clarinet recording in history. I guess it should have been recorded in 1894, when the first commercial disk appeared edited by the Berliner Gramophon. I've been looking for any catalogue of these times but no luck. I was wondering if somenone may know something about all this. It doesn't matter if it's a non-commercial recording. The point is to be the first one. I guess that there were some non-commercial recordings before the very first disk was sold and I was wondering if there is a special one that everybody but me knows about. It's just curiosity and a bit of fear of being unaware of something I may know.
Thanks!
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2005-11-09 19:39
Stan Stanford, the clarinet prof at Portland State University, is a specialist in early clarinet recordings and maintains a list at http://www.clarphon.com/clarinetrecordings.htm. His earliest cylinder is dated to 1891 with a question mark. You should also look at his main page at http://www.clarphon.com/.
He’s put out a CD, "The Acoustic Era -- Clarinet Recordings, 1898-1918," with fascinating early material. The track list is at http://www.tinfoil.com/cd-AECR.htm, and you can order it at http://www.tinfoil.com/cms-cat.htm. It's hard to listen through the roar of surface noise, but you get used to it after a while. It's better through headphones.
http://www.tinfoil.com/ has lots of good material on early recordings in general.
Michael Bryant in London has a large collection of early clarinet recordings and is a font of information. See http://www.woodwind.org/clarinet/Help/Michael_Bryant.html. However, the link information there is obsolete. His web page is at http://pages.britishlibrary.net/michael.bryant/ (lots of funny stuff), and his email address is michael.bryant@britishlibrary.net
Your next question will probably be whether there are any recordings of Richard Mühlfeld, Brahms’s clarinetist, who lived until 1907. No commercial recordings have been found. Michael has been searching for private recordings without success for many years, though it’s always possible that one will turn up.
Ken Shaw
P.S. -- Clarinet Classics has put out several CDs of historical performances http://www.clarinetclassics.com/history.htm.
Post Edited (2005-11-09 21:36)
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