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Brymer / Mozart

Author: Bassie
Date: 2006-11-21 12:06

Just got me an LP (yes, vinyl!) of Jack Brymer doing the Mozart concerto with St. Martin-in-the-Fields. Very nice!... inspiring, even. So smooth, and almost like the instrument, the /machine/, is... singing... I've only heard that a few times before.

Made me try and imagine what Mozart must have been thinking. The piece is like a showcase for the instrument, which must have been the height of technology in his time. I once saw a performance of a renaissance piece for violin, viola, viol and viola-da-gamba - two boxy, two curvy - and it was the same: the old boxy instruments chugged slong while the new curvy ones did all this wonderful stuff in front of them... look what I can do! Same with this Mozart...

I'm rambling, I know, but I had to share...

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Re: Brymer / Mozart

Author: bawa
Date: 2006-11-22 05:58

I have a Jack Brymer recording too; in fact, it is the first piece of western classical music that I really listened to on tape. I think mine is with the London Phil....not sure, cos its not here wiht me right now.
He's superb.

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Re: Brymer / Mozart

Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2006-11-22 12:24

That LP, new at the time (yes, we did ride to school on dinosaurs then), made me fall in love with the clarinet. Before, the clarinet was the instrument my band director forced me onto because "Girls don't play the drums" and "Girls don't play the trumpet." The mere fact that he made me choose between flute and clarinet made me despise both instruments--until my aunt and uncle, both musicians, sent me that record for my birthday. Wow! Since then, I've collected many other performances of the Mozart concerto, but that one (now on CD, but I've also kept the LP) remains among my favorites.

Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
To hear the audio, click on the "Scorch Plug-In" box above the score.

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