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Author: cigleris
Date: 2004-06-10 20:05
What sounds better, Mozart concerto and Quintet on "standard" clarinet or Basset clarinet. I prefer basset clarinet but what about everybody else out there.
Peter Cigleris
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Author: Ralph G
Date: 2004-06-10 20:13
Can only give personal preference, of course, but based on only two basset recordings I've heard (Shifrin and Sabine Meyer), I prefer the standard clarinet.
Feel free to recommend a basset recording that'll knock my sox off.›
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Post Edited (2004-06-10 20:14)
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Author: Clarinetist
Date: 2004-06-10 20:32
Ralp G, You should try Erich Hoeprich version made with the orchestra of the 18th century and conducted by Frans Bruggen. IMO it´s the best one out there. Although, it is made on periodl intruments the intonation is not bad. I compared it to the other recordings made on period/original instruments (I don´t know the difference) and this one was WAY better. Try it. Amazon has a few sound clips about that recording in their website.
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Author: Hiroshi
Date: 2004-06-10 21:18
In era of Stadler, clarinets had straighter bores and may have sounded far brighter than today's clarinets:Charles Neidich plays often this type of clarinets.
Needs straight bore basset bore clarinets for comparison, played perhaps by masonist players.
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~rb5h-ngc/e/k621b.htm
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Author: William
Date: 2004-06-10 22:26
To paraphrase Duke Ellington, "If it sounds *better*, it is *better*".
Post Edited (2004-06-11 14:37)
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Author: claclaws
Date: 2004-06-10 23:52
Hiroshi,
Visited your Mozart webpage. Interesting, so I bookmarked it.
Lucy Lee Jang
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Author: Synonymous Botch
Date: 2004-06-11 15:25
I love the Basset clarinet - LIVE.
I don't think it has been well recorded.
I purchased the Opus3 version with a Swede playing the BC, and it's dull.
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