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Author: seabreeze
Date: 2017-12-27 00:24

Maybe I'm atypical in being blown away more by recorded clarinetists than in person performances. I grew up listening to jazz clarinetists in parades, at dances, and concerts in New Orleans but the playing of classical clarinetists Leopold Wlach and Louis Cahuzac on LPs really grabbed me. In the late 1950s, I got hold of Wlach's Brahms Trio on a Westminster LP and Cahuzac's Angel recording of the Hindemith Concerto with the composer conducting. It was like shock treatment hearing the classic Viennese Oehler and the French Boehm side by side in full classical regalia. The way Wlach intertwined with the deep tones of the cello and the enormous rhytmic vitality of Cahuzac in the Schnell Second Movement and the closing Rondo taught me to listen to classical music in a detailed and receptive way. I recall thinking what a wonderful instrument the clarinet is that it can sound in these two very different ways yet still fit into the mainstream of what is classical. Thinking that I could learn to play like either Wlach or Cahuzac or--better still--like both liberated some energies in me that contiune to resonate today.

Not too long after my initiation to the classical clarinet I did get to hear Ron deKant with the New Orleans Phil, (playing in Grofe's Grand Canyon Suite) and later arranged to take lessons with him and was very impressed with Bram de Wilde in the Concertgebow. But it was the Wlach and Cahuzac recordings that initially and permanently hooked me.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Brahms-Wlach+Kwarda+Holeschek.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfnXPjG_P70

Post Edited (2017-12-27 02:20)

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