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Author: JohnBach
Date: 2016-10-01 18:10
There was a discussion in this Forum in 2006 about Pat Ryan, first clarinet in the Halle Orchestra for many years up to 1957. Shortly before he retired and as a tribute to him, Barbirolli arranged some Handel organ concerto movements into a clarinet concerto, which Pat Ryan performed in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester (the Halle's then venue). The sheet music for this Handel-Barbirolli work exists, but I can locate no recording of it.
Can anyone help?
It's of special significance to me as Pat Ryan taught my father, who died in 1964, while Laurance Turner, then Halle leader, was teaching me. As mentioned before in these columns, Pat Ryan used a simple system clarinet and played everything on the Bb. His tone was pure and sweet and he was inclined to play quietly, so much so that Laurance Turner complained of this when I suggested that the strings could have been quieter in the performance of the concerto. Perhaps this is why there is no recording? Indeed, I can imagine Pat Ryan declining a recording offer - a great musician and a shy and retiring man.
Does anyone have any memories of this?
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Author: cigleris
Date: 2016-10-01 20:25
Have you check the BBC sound archives? Also the British Library has an extensive sound library so if there is a recording then they might have it or have a record of when it might have been done. Good luck
Peter Cigleris
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Author: Caroline Smale
Date: 2016-10-02 01:55
For many years the second clarinet playing alongside Pat Ryan was Leonard Regan.
Len obtained in 1946 one of the first pairs of the then new B&H Imperial (926) clarinets.
I was fortunate to buy these from Len's widow when Len died, relatively young, around 1958. The pair cost me £60.
They were very fine clarinets and made with beautiful wood, obviously pre-war and so very well matured.
I played these for quite a few years until seduced to the more continental sound of the French instruments. sadly had to sell (to Bill Lewington) to finance the new ones.
The ser nos were 36991/37254.
If anyone owns them, or knows where they are now, I would love to hear.
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