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Re: LIVE(maybearch)VID NOW +/-3:20pm ET, 21h20CET Death/Trans&Till ConcertgebouwOrch

Author: John Peacock
Date: 2014-09-02 01:07

Thanks for this. I was lucky enough to hear the same programme live in the Edinburgh festival just a few days ago. Everyone I know that attended the concert agreed it was some of the most classy playing we'd ever witnessed. And everyone from the conductor down seemed to be enjoying themselves.

Fabulous clarinet playing, but who's the principal? The programme in Edinburgh claimed it was Olivier Patey, but I'm pretty sure it's someone different.

A couple of oddities:

* They have the back row of winds reversed, so that the bassoons are behind the flutes. I gather this is standard Concertgebouw practice, to stop all the bass being on the conductor's right.

* At 1:37:48 the Eb clarinet plays his phrase for the umpteenth time - but instead of descending for the last note, he goes way up to the top of the instrument. This isn't what's written (on IMSLP), and it's not what the Concertgebouw did under Haitink in 1973. But this alternative must have some sort of provenance?

Anyway, the main thing is that this is really worth experiencing while you have the chance.

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