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Re: Performances that put you in the time and the place of composition

Author: Tony Pay ★2017
Date: 2020-10-01 22:05

Thank you Simon for your lovely endorsement. I agree that Spohr 1 and 2 are beautiful pieces, and I enjoyed revisiting this 41-year-old version of them for the first time in a few years.

Conductors always asked me to play 2 rather than 1; and though 2 is more of a technical nuisance for the soloist, I can see now, I think, why they did. It’s much more of a collaboration with the orchestra, and so more interesting for them. Indeed, if the recording of the Eb concerto has the quality you admire in your post, I think a large slice of the credit should go to the orchestra and David Atherton.

We were going on to record 3 and 4, but couldn’t in 1979 get hold of the orchestral material.

Tony

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