Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2003-03-20 18:46
Myron Bloom was almost certainly the horn player on the Octet recording, and George Goslee was the principal bassoonist in Cleveland at the time, so presumably he was also playing.
Some of my favorite Marcellus playing is on a Russian Favorites LP that has, unfortunately, never been reissued on CD. Capriccio Espagnole, Capriccio Italienne, Polovtsian Dances and Sunrise from Kovanshchina. Amazing stuff, played, I'm told, on a GG crystal mouthpiece.
The unique qualities of the Cleveland woodwind principals contributed greatly to Marcellus's playing. He went out of his way to praise oboist Marc Lifshey, Maurice Sharp is legendary in the flute world, and George Goslee was as good as they come. It was all of them together, each one supporting the others, that made the Cleveland Orchestra the best there was. The only comparable group was Kincaid, Tabuteau, McGinnis/McLane and Guetter/Schoenbach in the Philadelphia orchestra, and their 78 RPM recorded sound in the 1930s and 40s wasn't close to what Cleveland got in the 60s and 70s.
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