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RE: Nielsen Concerto

Author: David
Date: 2002-07-19 01:02

Yeah. It is a bit horrible, isn't it? I used to look at it now and again. Too difficult for me to play or to encourage me to put the effort into practicing it.

Can I offer some comfort in this quote from the poor sod who premiered it?

"He (Nielsen) must be able to play the clarinet himself, otherwise he would hardly have been able to find the worst notes to play", the leading Danish clarinettist Aage Oxenvad (1884-1944) is claimed to have said when he had given Nielsen's clarinet concerto its baptism at a private concert in September 1928. Nielsen who knew Oxenvad very well had tailored the work to the somewhat choleric musician: "If Oxenvad can make nothing of it there is no-one who can", he wrote.

Johnson probably couldn't and Collins could, but he'd cruise through it and kill any interest that might have lurked there.

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