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Author: luca1
Date: 2011-02-09 05:20
Interesting comparison on "blending" ... with perhaps the most beautiful cor anglais solo passage ever:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11mfvRIKgUA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxh-VTqNK0c
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Author: grifffinity
Date: 2011-02-09 06:29
I prefer Carbonare tone-wise, intonation-wise,...but man...Jessye Norman is so effortless - no contest for me between her and Kozena.
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Author: Dileep Gangolli
Date: 2011-02-10 01:56
While the playing may be better in the NYPO video, the women were hotter in the Abbado clip, so I vote for that one. Doesn't really matter who's playing clarinet.
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Author: DAVE
Date: 2011-02-10 02:25
Jessye Norman beats everyone. The other singer was harsh. When Jessye Norman sings she owns you. I played a concert with her years ago where she was singing Wagner. It was all I could do to look at the page in front of me. In the rehearsals she faced us, and I tell you to this day I have never heard anything even close to what she did. Her encore was that aria from Samson and Delila "mon coeur..." or whatever it's called. It was breathtaking.
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Author: asabene
Date: 2011-02-18 15:46
They each played the Berio Sequenza IXa. Two very different performances indeed.
Carbonare's performance was very profound and nearly flawless. I was completely blown away. Carbonare also talked about how Berio himself had given him tips on how to play it that inspired his interpretation. Drucker's performance was great too, but he made some odd decisions. He flutter tongued some articulated passages and also decided to stack the 10 single-sided pages of the part on top of each other and page-turn himself which ended up breaking up some of the phrases (as opposed to what Berio--or the publisher--intended, which was to lay them out across 4 or 5 stands).
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Author: luca1
Date: 2011-02-24 01:08
I think the cor anglais players are night and day too!
However, to give Drucker his due, I think the recording is no way near as sophisticated. He is/was a nuanced player - perhaps not his finest moment....and as David B. said ..I'd give my two front teeth to play like that at 80 ..... well maybe not........unless I was allowed to rest it on my knee alla Marcellus.....
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Author: LarryBocaner ★2017
Date: 2011-02-24 13:40
Bravo, Ken, for your penetrating analyses! One small point: Fischer-Dieskau's performance is not with the Berlin Philharmonic but with the RSO Berlin -- I don't think Leister performed with that orchestra. Riccardo Chailly is a great conductor: I loved playing with him.
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