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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2006-11-28 19:31
Anthony Gigliotti's excellent recording of the Weber Concertino appeared on a Columbia "First Chair" LP. It's now available again, along with William Kincaid's amazing performance of the Griffes Poeme and other fine stuff, on a CD from Haydn House, http://www.haydnhouse.com/home.htm. Go to p. 7 of the complete catalog.
Ken Shaw
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Author: Ralph Katz
Date: 2006-11-28 21:45
The two things that I remember on that recording were:
- William Kincaid's Griffes Poeme, an amazing, passionate performance
- Sol Schoenbach playing Burrill Phillip's Concert Piece for Bassoon and Orchestra, the happiest piece ever written for bassoon
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Author: Alseg
Date: 2006-11-30 00:56
I have a copy of the CD that was made from a "6-hole" vinyl.
Unfortunately AMG sounds shrill on the cd.
My old Columbia vinyl, full of pops and scratches from bad stylus points, has a much more colorful sound. This particular album has difficulties making the transition from analog to digital....too bad.
One nice thing is that the french horns in var.II really sing out.....the arrangement is credited to Bonade on the vinyl album, which has a nice cover with cameo pics of the soloist.
Also, Tony chose to use stacato articulations in some of the more traditionally slurred runs. It is an "in your face" recording, and IMHO still one of the better ones.
This series was produced for the benefit of the Philly Orch Pension Fund, with the procedes, I presume, going to the retirees.
Kincaid had a sound like no other...haunting.
The horn solo by Mason Jones is another goodie, but his tight vibrato translated to a harmonica like sound even on the vinyl.
Tabateau. the oboe guru of phrasing. does a nice turn.
And, Kratchmalnick's Violin in the Beethoven Romance #2 is perhaps the most sonorous--and perhaps schmaltziest--record of this plum ever set down, esp. with Ormandy's notoriously heavy accompaniment.
BTW, the Trumpet voluntary is attributed to Purcell and not Clarke....rectified I believe in the 1960s.
Former creator of CUSTOM CLARINET TUNING BARRELS by DR. ALLAN SEGAL
-Where the Sound Matters Most(tm)-
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