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 Nielsen Concerto: a non-player's view
Author: Bill 
Date:   2003-06-13 20:55

I recently purchased RCA LSC-2920, Benny Goodman playing the Nielson concerto with the Chicago Symphony. I bought this recording as a curiosity. I had read terrible things about it--I wanted to hear how awful it was for myself (don't misunderstand: I am a Goodman fan). A (nonclarinetist) friend was with me when I put the record on, and I introduced it as "the worst classical recording Benny Goodman ever made." We listened, and then I put on Ib Erikson's performance (with the Danish State Radio Symphony Orchestra) for comparison.

I tried to explain to my friend that at least one of the differences in the two readings was that Ib Erikson was "more in touch with the music." To my surprise, my nonplayer friend wasn't having any of it. To him, Goodman's earnest struggle on his Series 9 had more feeling, especially (according to him) in the slow movement. "That other guy's just going through his paces" my friend said. What I heard as a better intuitive understanding of the music and a better technical offering were, to my friend, just slick playing. For him, the music was best expressed by Benny Goodman.

I thought it was a story worth telling.

Bill Fogle
Washington, DC
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