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Author: GBK
Date: 2015-06-23 07:17
About 10 years ago there was an inquiry on the bulletin board as to the availability of the Jimmy Abato recording of him playing the finale of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, at an amazing tempo.
Well, buckle your seat belts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXeL0C9HubU
...GBK
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Author: MartyMagnini
Date: 2015-06-23 07:35
Nice!
I played this with the University of Illinois Clarinet Choir back in 1976. Tempo sounds about right, although I used more slurs and less staccato - mostly 2+2 I think. This is a great version - sounds like the same arrangement as the one we played back then.
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2015-06-24 01:20
I've got an old vinyl LP recording of Abato playing alto sax on the Ibert Concertino, one of the few warhorses of the (small) classical sax world -- I think he does a great job with it, although I've heard some negative comments by a few "real" classical sax players I know (that is, guys who can only play sax and are scared to death of the clarinet) 
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Author: seabreeze
Date: 2015-06-24 02:47
I'd like to hear an update of the Tchaikovsky performed on clarinet by Mate Bekavac (as a companion piece to his wild Carmen Suite Fantasy), complete with extended range and multiple tonguing (maybe even multiphonics). Martin Frost and Alexey Gorokholinsky would also be good candidates to do a new adaptation on clarinet.
Malcolm McNab does a rather startling version of the concerto on trumpet and even plays many of the highest harmonics.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfQyl53r2MU.
The real stunner however, is to hear (and watch) the piece performed on an updated version of the Chinese Erhu by a certain Mr. Gao. If Tchaikovsky were alive, I wonder if, after hearing this version, he might wonder if he should have written it for the Erhu in the first place (with suitable changes to conform to the idiom of the instrument).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRytrn_oJo8.
Michael Collins, of course, brings off the Beethoven Violin Concerto--a piece that falls more naturally than the Tchaikovsky into the framework of conventional clarinet technique-- with great musicality, eveness of tone and articulation, and flourish on his recorded adaptation for clarinet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJD-6YwXyvM.
Post Edited (2015-06-24 18:30)
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