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Author: Anon
Date: 2007-03-19 16:24
Ricardo Morales performed the Copland Concert this past weekend with the Kentucky Symphony Orchestra (I play there) and it was such a pleasure to hear someone play so beautifully and naturally. I heard lots of comments about how easy he makes it seem and they are right; the sheer beauty and ease that he performs with is astonishing. Truly amazing.
Marianne
:-)
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Author: jmsa
Date: 2007-03-19 17:54
Did Mr. Morales use his new Leblanc clarinet.
jmsa
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Author: Sylvain
Date: 2007-03-19 18:30
Thanks for the link GBK.
Amazing playing indeed. I really admire Mr Morales flawless musical skills, and I am ever impressed by his playing. His CD french portrait is one hell of a display of control, technique and musicality.
However, I somehow have not yet been moved by his playing. I cannot pinpoint to it, but I find myself hoping for something more in his phrasing and "color" palette. Maybe I need to hear him live, you just don't get appointed principal at the MET and Philadelphia only on reputation.
Anybody else sharing my views?
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Sylvain Bouix <sbouix@gmail.com>
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Author: sfalexi
Date: 2007-03-19 19:09
I hear you sylvain. Although as per "not being moved", that happens to me most with David Shifrin's playing (from those recordings I've heard). One guy that'll ALWAYS "move me" with phrasing, color palette, and of course sheer energy is Charles Neidich. I only say this because I have French Portraits and the song "Cantilene", while beautiful, is nothing (in my VERY humble opinion) to the one time I heard it live from Charles Neidich.
US Army Japan Band
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Author: dgclarinet
Date: 2007-03-19 21:39
Is that Morales playing on the symphony website? It looks like it's meant for the musicians to get familiar with the piece before they rehearsed it..maybe somebody else's recording? It sure sounds like Richard Stoltzman's RCA recording.
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Author: Tom Piercy
Date: 2007-03-19 21:54
DG,
I think you're correct about the link and recording being meant for the KSO musicians to listen to for learning purposes. The recording on the link supplied above does not sound like either Ricardo Morales or the Kentucky SO.
Tom Piercy
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Author: Anon
Date: 2007-03-19 22:18
Yes, indeed there was a posting on the KSO site meant for musicians only to get the recording. Sorry, I forgot it was there and didn't mention it in my original post.
As for "not being moved", I can only personally say that his opening of the concerto was one of the most beautiful things I have ever heard.
Marianne
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Author: GBK
Date: 2007-03-19 22:21
DG and Thomas Piercy are both correct.
Just relistened and compared...
The recording posted IS the Stoltzman/LSO recording (RCA 7762-2)
I always did like that recording ![[wink]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie3.gif)
Just goes to show, you sometimes can't tell the players without a scorecard...GBK
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Author: bcl1dso
Date: 2007-03-19 22:40
phhheeeewwwwww....... you scared me there for a second. ; )
Just a question, did morales use vibrato throughout the whole thing?
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Author: Scotti
Date: 2007-03-20 00:39
I was unable to attend the performance, but I was told by people who've heard him before that it was really difficult to hear him. This would seem in line with the equipment changes he's gone through in recent years. My guess is that he is now playing the Leblanc/Backun models? Anyone have any thoughts on this...?
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Author: Anon
Date: 2007-03-20 01:37
I heard it from the hall in the dress rehearsal and the first night, then from backstage on Sunday afternoon. I didn't have trouble hearing him at all...he was using the Backun bell and barrel. I only spoke with him very briefly after the performance so I didn't ask him about any of his equipment. Are there theories that the Backun things alter projection??
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Author: Scotti
Date: 2007-03-20 02:07
Yes. I don't know. I've heard him perform a number of times and he's always sounded great. I have charted a progression in his sound, however, and if he's playing the new instruments, it wouldn't surprise me if it's even more covered. But then, this is about his Copland, not about his instruments.
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Author: David Niethamer
Date: 2007-03-20 02:33
> I somehow have not yet been moved by his playing. I cannot pinpoint to it, > but I find myself hoping for something more in his phrasing and "color"
> palette. Maybe I need to hear him live, you just don't get appointed principal > at the MET and Philadelphia only on reputation.
I've heard Mr. Morales in the orchestra at the Met about a dozen times, and half a dozen performances at various ICA conferences and such. I always feel that he plays with feeling appropriate to the style of the music, never "over the top". I find his performances well thought out, and even if I don't always agree with his choices, I can respect the thought process and feeling that goes into them. As with any performer, I think you have to hear them "live", and more than once, to make a useful judgment about their playing.
David
David
niethamer@aol.com
http://members.aol.com/dbnclar1/index.html
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Author: Tom Piercy
Date: 2007-03-20 15:12
This is a note from the KSO Music & Executive Director regarding the above mentioned link:
Those were commercial recordings put up so musicians could have access
to listen to them for rehearsal purposes. They were up for about a
week. They are down now.
No it was not Ricardo, though he did a great job.
Thanks
J.R. Cassidy
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James Cassidy
Music & Executive Director
Kentucky Symphony Orchestra
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Author: robertgh
Date: 2007-03-20 16:47
Hi, GBK,
Stoltzman recorded it twice with the LSO— once under Lawrence Leighton Smith and once with Michael Tilson Thomas. The track on the KSO site clocks in at 18:05 while the MTT version is a brisk 16:50. I share bcl1dso's relief—thought if that's Morales, he's sure having an 'off' day!
Bob H.
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