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Author: bill28099
Date: 2008-01-24 00:35
Wonderful, the pre R13 clarinet sound is great, in my humble opinion. Second, prior to the 1970s players wanted to make music not show the world they could finger things faster then Sabine Meyer. It breaks my heart that Thomas Edison had not lived 200 years earlier so we could have today the priviledge of hearing Stadler, Baermann, Kroepsch and Crusell.
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you don't even know you should ask.
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Author: GBK
Date: 2008-01-24 00:55
bill28099 wrote:
> Wonderful, the pre R13 clarinet sound is great,
> in my humble opinion. Second, prior to the 1970s
> players wanted to make music not show the world they
> could finger things faster then Sabine Meyer.
Let's also not forget that these recordings were done in one take.
No splices, patches or inserts used (or needed) to correct mistakes...GBK
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Author: Sylvain
Date: 2008-01-24 01:04
The sound, legato and tone is amazing to me.
Although I may disagree with bill28099, Cahuzac sounds like he is trying to show off on these things. Afterall he composed many pieces to show off his skills as encores...
I'm pretty sure that testosterone and ego was going just as strong then than now...
Anyway, it's still remarkable that we get to hear such beautiful playing from the 30's
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Sylvain Bouix <sbouix@gmail.com>
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Author: haberc
Date: 2008-01-24 01:36
Wow, thanks very much for posting this. His technical brilliance is wonderful but most joyful for me is hearing the warmth, richness and fullness of his sound. It would be nice to hear what clarinet he was playing, but in truth, Charlie Parker could make a plastic saxophone sound amazing. This was a real treat.
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Author: crnichols
Date: 2008-01-24 02:04
This is very beautiful playing. I have an LP of his Mozart Concerto and Quintet from a long time ago as well as his Hindemith Concerto recording. They are all wonderful.
Thanks for sharing!
Christopher Nichols, D.M.A.
Assistant Professor of Clarinet
University of Delaware
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Author: Ed
Date: 2008-01-24 16:20
I have a lot of Cahuzac on LP and CD. I am still waiting for the Mozart to appear on CD. Unfortunately, many have never had the opportunity to hear him and only know his name from his compositions. I love his recording of the Pierne Canzonetta. He plays it with a charm and lilt that nobody else seems to capture.
Post Edited (2008-01-25 12:17)
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Author: rtmyth
Date: 2008-01-24 18:22
Never heard him before. Incredible. The story goes...When a famous conductor stopped the rehearsal and said to the principal clarinet, " can you play it a little more like Cahuzac would play it?" He responded with " I will maestro if you will direct it like Toscanini".
richard smith
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Author: kchan ★2017
Date: 2008-01-24 23:07
Darn, being a youtube link I was hoping it would be video. Anyone know if a video of Cahuzac performing exists?
-ken
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2008-01-25 01:00
There's a fine collection of Cahuzac at http://www7.mailordercentral.com/frederichweinerinc/prodinfo.asp?number=CDRG08, another at http://www.amazon.com/Grands-Maitres-Clarinette-Vol-1/dp/B00000G2BP/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1201224999&sr=1-13. and a bit more at http://www.amazon.com/Clarinet-Historical-Recordings-Vol-2-Goodman/dp/B0000044D6/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1201224959&sr=1-4
The Nielsen is not his best work -- the technical challenges were beyond him -- but even there he makes much music. http://www.amazon.com/Nielsen-Historic-Recordings-Louis-Jensen/dp/B0000044CY/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1201224959&sr=1-11
His Hindemith Concerto is very good. Even though he was a bit past his prime, he brought it off beautifully. http://www7.mailordercentral.com/frederichweinerinc/prodinfo.asp?number=CDRG08
His Mozart Concerto has been reissued on CD, but appears to be out of print. It's not my favorite. Tempos are extremely slow, particularly in the finale. In an interview in the first series of Clarinet Magazine, he claimed that the master was made at the wrong speed, but it's the correct pitch, so I don't believe him. It was recorded direct to disk, live, in a single take, before editing was possible, and he had a couple of loud squeaks (as he did in the Nielsen).
Ken Shaw
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Author: brycon
Date: 2008-01-25 01:27
I second the Hindemith Concerto recommendation. I wish this piece was programmed more often. Even though it isn't a virtuosic show-piece, it is a wonderful work with some very beautiful orchestral writing (in my opinion).
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Author: BFlatorelse
Date: 2008-01-25 02:51
Ya' know I think it's very good technical playing espcially considering the clarintet techology he was playing on. However, it is just not very musical and franklly boring music in general. One can be impressed by technicality easily but I listened to to the excerpts and would never want to hear them again for musical reasons. This is what keeps clarinetsists in the dark and behind the stand. People, the audience want to hear not just once but over and over again a player of any instrument because they are mucsical, not just because they impress other instumentalists or their type, i.e. us as clarinetists. Sorry, I'm not impressed.
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Author: Mark G Simon
Date: 2008-01-25 12:36
Admittedly the compositions he's playing are pretty meager stuff, but I find the playing extremely musical. He's displaying not only the ability to play a lot of notes very fast, but also the ability to make each of those notes sound elegant. His legato is so smooth, each note seems to melt into the next, and he makes the notes of the theme retain their songful quality no matter how many trills and 32nd notes they happen to be surrounded by.
Clarinetist, composer, arranger of music for clarinet ensemble
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Author: dgclarinet
Date: 2008-01-25 15:09
I'd doubly recommend the disks that Ken linked above...especially the disk with Hamelin and Mimart and Perier (amazing technique) along with Cahuzac. The disk with Cahuzac alone (I've been waiting for years hoping that the issuer of that CD would put out a Volume 2) has an ensemble piece with Cahuzac that really shows another side of him..not the incredible technical player...more an incredible ensemble player.
Cahuzac has always been one my favorite clarinetists, from the day I heard that Hindemith Concerto LP and his amazing sound. His style was his alone.
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2008-01-25 15:42
Cahuzac was invited to the first Casals Festival and was scheduled to perform many of the standard works. Unfortunately, he walked out after mortal insults from Marcel Tabuteau, who didn't like to share the spotlight, and who, everyone agrees, was one of the worst human beings who ever lived.
Ken Shaw
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Author: Ed Svoboda
Date: 2008-01-25 16:09
Wow.
Pretty amazing playing.
Thanks for sharing.
www.woodwindforum.com/forums
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Author: donald
Date: 2008-01-25 18:37
very beautiful playing- close to what i'd say was my "ideal" clarinet sound for classical playing...
dn
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Author: cigleris
Date: 2008-01-28 12:50
Interesting audio. I have some tapes with Cahuzac doing various French pieces like the Tomasi Concerto with piano. Having listened to this i got the part out and listened again to find that especially in the cadenza at the begining he doesn't play hardly any of what is written. He also has some octave transpositions and cuts ot the minor variation. I must say that it was a golden time for French wind playing and it's a shame now that the French players i've heard recently have to play with this false vibrato.
Peter Cigleris
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