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Author: D Dow
Date: 2004-01-21 16:19
While in Europe studying in the late 80s I remember hearing a tremendous account of the Mozart Concerto with Bram de Wilde(on a freind's record player)..does anyone know where and how long he played??? For some reason I get the impression he was in Amsterdam with the Royal Concertgebouw orchestra..
As to other details I have no idea if this ever ended up on CD, but its pretty nice playing.....
David Dow
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2004-01-21 17:09
David -
Bram de Wilde was principal in the Concertgebouw in the late 1950s. George Pieterson succeeded him in the 1960s. I have the LP of de Wilde's Mozart Concerto, which is very good. I think he played Reform Boehm clarinets -- his tone sounds halfway between the German and French ideals. There's a decent but rather clipped performance of the Mozart Bassoon Concerto on the other side with the Concertgebouw principal, who's name I can't recall offhand.
The performance was reissued on a cassette, together with an excellent Mozart Sinfonia Concertante for winds, in which de Wilde plays very elegantly.
As far as I know, it hasn't been reissued on CD. In his Clarinet Discography, Rich Gilbert puts it on his wish list for reissue.
Best regards.
Ken Shaw
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Author: D Dow
Date: 2004-01-21 17:16
Thanks Ken...
we are freezing up here in the Tundra...
David Dow
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2004-01-21 22:05
Oh, Canada! You're in Moosejaw, right? Or is it North Icicle?
In Siberia, they say that when it hits 90 below, all you need to do to whistle is blow some air out your mouth, with no need to pucker. So -- can you play clarinet without an embouchure at -90?
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Author: Anders
Date: 2004-01-26 19:52
I, too, love the DeWilde recording – and all things Concertgebouw. For what it's worth, as a matter of interest, I remember seeing a film of Arrau playing the Beethoven 3rd Concerto with Haitink conducting the Concertgebouw, dating from, I believe, sometime in the 1960s (early 70s at latest). The first clarinettist, whom I presume to have been Pieterson, was using a string ligature. I finally got to hear the band live in the Concertgebouw in 1995 and am pretty sure I saw metal ligatures in use...
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