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 Re: Mozart Clarinet Concerto-Who Played it Best?
Author: ThatPerfectReed 
Date:   2014-05-02 18:38

"What do you find in the Drakslar performance (besides the last half of the first movement) that you don't find in the Coppola performance? Do they add or detract from the performance. What is present in the Coppola performance that is absent from the Drakslar performance?"

Fair question.

I am amazed at what Coppola was able to bring forth in that period instrument, assuming--I think correctly, but I am not certain--that it must have take a lot more work to make it shine--than a modern clarinet. You have custom mouthpieces to contend with, and a need for finger accuracy where tone holes are more prevelant than the levers on today's instruments. I'm assuming that there were many obstacles to overcome, including good intonation in all registers: which still eludes clarinets and players today.

This is not to discount the difficulty of our instrument at any point since its introduction, nor Ms. Drakslar's talent. Music, I think, needs to tell a story through the conveyance of changes in dynamic, amoung many other attributes, that while Ms. Drakslar did, wasn't as apparent as I think it perhaps should or could have been with her modern instrument. But then again, who knows what comes out of microphone on a Youtube recording, and as mentioned, who knows if the music was rendered by her with her choice of the artistry that she would have preferred to play it with.

If Mr. Coppola had played as he did on a modern instrument I suspect I wouldn't have been as impressed. (Again, I am picking fine points of play with extremely gifted musicians.) His rendition reminds me of just how virtuosic Anton Stadler must have been http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Stadler on his clarinet of the day, when he first played Mozart's work.
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