Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2016-08-31 06:03
Hi Johan. I've long admired Sabine Meyer's version, which was included on her commercial release of operatic style works. She's one of my favorite players, and this is one of her really good recordings. Another very brilliant version of the Rossini is that by Charles Neidich (also on YouTube.) They are among the awesome technical clarinetists of today.
I admire Harold Wright for other reasons. He seemed at times to transcend the instrument. I've long enjoyed the recorded sounds of Leister, Sabine Meyer, Marcellus, Morales, and others, and Wright's is possibly the most unusual of those great sounds. His playing may not have been quite as brilliant technically as some others (though it is certainly at a very high standard), but his sound across registers and dynamic ranges was bewitching, and his expression seemed to go to the basic essentials of a piece - deceptively simply - so familiar music could sound magical and new.
It's great to have such excellent different versions to listen to and be inspired by.
Of Wright's other recordings, I especially admire the Mozart Quintet with the BSO chamber players (better than the one(s) with the Julliard quartet), the Brahms sonatas with Peter Serkin (better than the ones with Goldsmith), the Weber Quintet from Marlboro, and Schubert's Shepherd on the Rock with Serkin & Valente.
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