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Author: Alphie
Date: 2009-05-23 21:43
On Thursday I had the pleasure of attending a concert with Cecilia Bartoli on tour in Scandinavia with "Orchestra La Scintilla", a period instrument orchestra whithin the Zürich Opera Orchestra. Bartoli's voice and appearance was a pure delight as usual. A true star, nothing more said about that. The second half started with Donizetti's Concertino for clarinet and orchestra, a piece I had never heard before. Soloist was our friend Liqourice from this BBoard. His performance was so sensitive and beautiful that he recieved a standing ovation. Meeting him and a couple of other friends after the concert over a beer was the perfect ending of a perfect evening.
Alphie
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Author: Dileep Gangolli
Date: 2009-05-24 14:06
Was this played on a period instrument (early Romantic era, pre 1850)?
If so, who was the maker and how many keys did the clarinet have?
I would enjoy hearing this.....can Liquirice post it as an MP3 file somewhere?
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Author: Alphie
Date: 2009-05-24 14:37
Liqourice should answer this himself but the maker of this particular instrument is Rudolf Tutz, Innsbrück. I think it has 10 keys. The concert was not recorded.
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Author: cigleris
Date: 2009-05-24 14:45
what pitch did you play at A 430 or slightly higher? Could this be played on a 7keyed instrument? I don't know it all that well.
Peter Cigleris
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Author: Dileep Gangolli
Date: 2009-05-24 16:22
Well Tutz is a master maker. I wish I could have been there. Sad that there is no recording of such an unusual concert.
Mr Liquorice, if you see this thread, could you please record future performances to share with those of us interested in this sort of thing?
Thanks!
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Author: Liquorice
Date: 2009-05-25 13:32
Thanks a lot Alf! We just got back from Helsinki.
It was really a great pleasure to finally meet Alf, and to experience the wonderful Swedish hospitality. The bar in the concert hall was open for us afterwards (the principal clarinetist of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic was working behind the bar even though he was recording the Poulenc Sonata the next day!!) and the whole orchestra got a free drink. What a fantastic place and what nice people! :-)
I played the Donizetti on a 9-keyed Grenser clarinet by Tutz, tuned at A=430Hz. I love this instrument. Apparently Grenser instruments were used by a lot of Italian clarinetists in the first decades of the 19th century, so the it's a good instrument for the early Bel canto repertoire. Unfortunately the Andante of the Donizetti is not originally written for clarinet (it's was written for oboe and harp!) but Ms Bartoli thought that the piece fit in well with her Malibran programme. I certainly didn't mind playing it.
This concert wasn't recorded- but our performance with Cecilia Bartoli in Bacelona in 2007 made it onto a DVD:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cecilia-Bartoli-Barcelona-Malibran-Rediscoverd/dp/B0012R3DUO
Unfortunately most of the instrumental pieces in the concert (including my Donizetti) aren't included on the DVD, just the arias. But you can still hear a bit of my clarinet playing on it.
I do have an MP3 of a live performance of the Andante. How or where would I post it? My computer skills are also rather historical!
Post Edited (2009-05-25 13:32)
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Author: Liquorice
Date: 2009-05-25 18:02
Hi David. Thanks- that's a very kind offer. I just heard that someone may have made a video of our concert in Helsinki last night, so I'll see if I can get that to post. But I may just take you up on your offer of hosting the MP3. Thanks!
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Author: oliver sudden
Date: 2009-05-26 22:27
(Liquorice - do you happen to know a certain Ulrike Andersen? Singer, a very good friend in Zürich, has also performed with La Scintilla I think. If not, doesn't matter - would be a nice coincidence though!)
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