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Re: Frederick Thurston

Author: seabreeze
Date: 2019-12-24 20:46

The clearest recordings of Thurston I know are on the Symposium CD 1259--which I believe is still in print--of the Stanford Concerto in A minor, the John Ireland Fantasy Sonata, and the Fibich Quintet (with Dennis Brain). He had excellent technique and a forthright style unmarred by excesses of rubato or vibrato that marked some of his British successors. Though playing a large bore clarinet he preferred something of a closed facing, French style mouthpiece rather than the more open one favored by many British players. His method book and three vol. passage studies series are still challenging and worthwhile for study and practice.

If you were to listen only to recordings by Thurston and Haydn Draper, you would never guess that the next phase of British clarinet would be Kell, Brymer, and DePeyer. The current, straightforward styles of British-born Michael Collins, Anthony Pay, and Julian Bliss, seem to flow from Thurston and Draper rather than from Kell, Brymer, and DePeyer.

Post Edited (2019-12-24 20:55)

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