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Re: Philharmonia clarinetist 1986

Author: crnichols
Date: 2006-01-21 09:42

I have to agree with clarnibass here that recordings don't help players sound better, actually the contrary. Until I heard German clarinet playing live, I thought it was ok, now I don't know why everyone doesn't want to sound like that. Also, until a few years ago, I'd only heard Ricardo Morales play on a recording in the MET orchestra under Levine, and I thought, he sounds very good. Then I heard him play the Brahms quintet at the Library of Congress, and a year later in the Philadelphia Orchestra (he played the 2nd Rachmaninov symphony, and I have to say that he's one of the best American clarinet players I've ever heard in person. After I first arrived over here to start working in Germany, I had only occasionally heard great orchestral concerts live. Now that I have periods of time where I'm not terribly busy, but still getting paid the same, I have the opportunity every week to go hear the Bamberger Symphoniker, and I'm still floored every week at how exciting it is to hear a live orchestra play. There was a point that I was having difficulty listening to recordings, as I was so used to the experience of the sound at a live concert, and that cannot be captured on a recording. Sometimes things may be a little out of tune, or an entrance not quite perfectly together, but feeling that sound envelope you, and really being drawn into it is so different from a recording.
Christopher Nichols
1st Infantry Division Band

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