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Author: luca1
Date: 2012-02-15 01:31
I recently ordered and recieved the Mozart clarinet Concerto & Quintet played by Luigi Amodio (DRA Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv) and recorded in Berlin 1941 & 1942. There is a lot of beautiful playing here. However, the more I've been thinking about it, the more the "scene" of the recording begins to bother me. I'm not a student of history, but do have some idea that an Italian wandering about Berlin in those days would have noticed some strange things. A quick google with "Berlin 1942" will immediately reveal that thousands of Berlin's Jews had already been "eliminated" and laws were then in place about city travel on buses & what they had to wear etc. I'm sure the orchestra he recorded with had changed its personel, and I know the Quartet he recorded with (Strub Quartet) had Nazi sympathizers within it.
....anyway ..... perhaps someone out there can better descibe the "atmosphere" of these recordings or clarify Amodio's position in this ghastly scene. There seems to be very little I can find out about him. From the outside it looks like Fascist Italy making lovely music with Fascist Germany .... and this means for me I have a recording I simlply can't listen to anymore.
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Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2012-02-15 04:02
Different point of view here. Alot of clarinet players found themselves playing in the army and navy bands.
Interesting story here. Mitchell Lurie decided to take on bombing missions. Yes, he flew planes. Somewhere around 30 missions.
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Author: luca1
Date: 2012-02-15 13:57
thank you Simon - I was not aware of that article - a good overview of the main ideas, and some of the "tainted" artists over the years.
I would like to be clear that i'm not casting Luigi Amodio as a Nazi sympathizer - I just don't have the info to make any claim. I was hoping someone did not more of him. On the notes to the other recording out in the public - Luigi Amodio - Las Scala Virtuoso - the notes say because he would not join the Italian Fascist party he had to take a lesser teaching post in his final years.....adding to the ambiguity of why he was allowed to, or wished to, travel up to Fasist Germany during 1941/42.
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