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Re: marcellus recordings

Author: D Dow
Date: 2003-03-20 15:09

As for individual solos where I feel Marcellus can be best appreciated you should go to the Sony essential classics and have a listen to some of the standard orchestra works they performed and recorded under the Szell tenure.

sone of my personal favorite Marcellus solos

Kodaly Harry Janos suite clarinet cadenza-very well played and extremely beautiful tone

Richard Strauss Death and Transfiguration Beautifully entered high Eb with a superb legato connection from the alltissimo to the middle clarion. Inspired!

Brahms Symphony No 4 slow movement. Tremendous control in the upper chalumeau with excellent blending with the 2cd clarinet

Last movement Variation with excellent entrance on the clarion F# with a lovely dovetailing into the next instrument

Bruckner 3 Szell A great amount of beautifully executed work to heard here.

Mozart 40th this is one of my favorite solos in the last movement. Here the sound is very well placed with excellent crisp arrticulation that one is so used to hearing from marcellus.

Brahms 1st Slow movement Truly played with great elan. The solo is worth listening to several times!!!

Ravel Daphnis & Chloe Suite no 2. An amazing tone here to heard....superb winds on this recording. Man I admire this record.....

Walton Variations on the Theme of Paul Hindemith Phenomenal record with superb feeling.

Richard Strauss Sinfonia Domestica....great solos especially in the lullaby. Great chalumeau ...reference recording of this piece if there ever was one!

I think these are among my personal favorite things Marcellus did. As for the Beethoven syphonies they are all gloriously done and #8 and # 2 are particulary nice because we really get to hear him stretch out....

All in all this is quite a legacy of recorded output. Sadly there are no Schubert Ooctets or Brahmns A minor quintet records....this would be a great place to hear such a pure sound....no ifs and buts there will always be a mystique around such great artistry and rightly so. Enjoy!

Marcellus fan and clarinet nut,

David Dow

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