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Author: Speculator Sam
Date: 2018-04-04 03:57
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHt4PFKiQE0
It's a lovely piece. The melody's flowing, the modulations are clever and concise, and it's seems Camille knew about the wonderful robust low notes of soprano clarinet.
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Author: sax panther
Date: 2018-04-04 12:13
I love this piece. Performed for one of my university recitals and in several other concerts too, it always goes down well.
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Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2018-04-04 19:21
Thanks Sam, really enjoyed this performance. They project the beauty of the 2nd movement especially well for me.
Interesting to read the YouTube comments; one claims the performance is spoiled by the clarinetist's concept of sound, which isn't light and "French". The anonymous writer says he's a 50-year pro clarinetist who studied with the greats. Personally, I find the music responds well given the sound projected on this recording (though at FF it gets a touch coarse); maybe I'm less picky about sound all around, though I do really like some performers' sounds.
Sometimes I wonder if highly educated and credentialed people don't magnify the importance of details that lie beyond the hearing or concern of the large majority of less educated listeners who just love music, to the point where the performers are only playing for the few like themselves.
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Author: dorjepismo ★2017
Date: 2018-04-04 20:00
It's a very nice, musical performance. And by the time he wrote the piece, Saint-Saëns was of course still French, but by no means light. I was wondering, though, if anyone else plays the first movement faster? I listened to a bunch of YouTube recordings, and the tempi are almost all just like this recording, with the pianists sitting on the first note for almost exactly as long. It's an uncanny degree of unanimity you don't hear with most of the important solo pieces. The only one I listened to that was about at the tempo I like it at was also the only one by a French player: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjBnSe6TZCA. I know it says Allegretto, and if you look at metronomes, the usual tempo is at the upper end of Allegretto, but the first movement of Poulenc is also Allegretto, and it books. The normal tempo just doesn't feel like Allegretto to me. The French recording is also notable for the weird red dot on his bell, sort of like a sniper with very good reactions was tracking him. I like his playing a lot, but have to say I'm possibly happier with Ulf's German sound.
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