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 Re: Mozart Clarinet Concerto-Who Played it Best?
Author: seabreeze 
Date:   2014-05-03 23:27

One note on the admiration for Coppola's fingering skills: The early clarinet is a lot like the recorder in its fingering because, of course, Denner was a recorder maker. The added keys have spoiled clarinetists into thinking that playing on an instrument with few or no keys and rings is more difficult than it really is. Today, there are dozens of virtuoso recorder players who can toss off the Flight of the Bumblebee at blazing speed on instruments that have no keys whatsoever. Even a few tenacious amateurs have been able to manage this. Coppola isn't--so far as fingering goes--doing anything that many advanced recorder players couldn't do either right away or with a few days' or weeks' practice.

Also, I agree that compared, for instance, with the round, woody sound that Ricardo Morales draws from his Selmer Recital basset clarinet in his excellent Youtube performance, the old authentic instrument gives a very small and thin sound of limited dynamic range. Thorsten Johanns' performance seems to be more expressive and much fresher in phrase driving, accentuation, and overall interpretation than Coppola's.



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