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Re: Camille Saint-Saens Clarinet Sonata

Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2018-04-04 19:21

Thanks Sam, really enjoyed this performance. They project the beauty of the 2nd movement especially well for me.

Interesting to read the YouTube comments; one claims the performance is spoiled by the clarinetist's concept of sound, which isn't light and "French". The anonymous writer says he's a 50-year pro clarinetist who studied with the greats. Personally, I find the music responds well given the sound projected on this recording (though at FF it gets a touch coarse); maybe I'm less picky about sound all around, though I do really like some performers' sounds.

Sometimes I wonder if highly educated and credentialed people don't magnify the importance of details that lie beyond the hearing or concern of the large majority of less educated listeners who just love music, to the point where the performers are only playing for the few like themselves.

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