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Re: Martin Fröst changed to Backun?

Author: seabreeze
Date: 2017-11-10 22:00

When I try to pull up this link, I get the message "The uploader has not made this video available in your country." What music is Frost playing and with whom? What date is given for the uploading?

Is it from his new recording of the Messiaen Quatuor... with Janie Jansen on Sony? I can pull up this audio sample:

https://sonyclassical.lnk.to/MF-Messiaen.

He does sound very round and mellow--features that come easily on Backun instruments. When he played recently with the LA Phil, he was using a Buffet Basset Clarinet, I believe. He visited Gilad and his crew at the Colburn school in October. They would probably know if he's been playing a Backun too.

A few years ago Frost wrote in his blog that he owned "12 clarinets." When I heard him live about 2 years ago in the Copland Concerto with the Houston Symphony, he was playing a Buffet. If he has one or more Backuns as well, that doesn't necessarily mean he "changed to Backun." He's always switched around with his Buffets so a Backun or two could just give him more choices for any given performance.

Post Edited (2017-11-10 22:30)

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