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Author: crvsp
Date: 2020-12-15 06:10
Any good recordings true to Oxenvad's interpretation? On YouTube would be preferred. Or if there's a really good record of it, I would like to know where I can get one.
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Author: seabreeze
Date: 2020-12-15 09:05
Probably nobody plays the Nielsen Concerto the way Oxenvad would play it. You could try recordings by Danish clarinetists such as Kjell-Inge Stevensson and the Danish Radio Orchestra (1975) for interpretations that reflect Danish preferences but remember, Oxenvad was temperamentally a unique character known to the composer, and other Danish players cannot be expected to mimic Oxenvad's mood-swinging tendencies exactly. First rate, technically adept recordings of the concerto abound. Stanley Drucker set the pace with virtuoso speed articulation, extraordinary finger dexterity, dramatically smooth legato and stunning endurance in his performance with Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic (1967). The Danes didn't care for it; he made all the difficulties sound too light and easy and wasn't sufficiently bipolar. Perhaps the same could be said of two later recordings that are also technically excellent--Sabine Meyer's (2007) and Philippe Cuper's (1992). Superb playing throughout (and personally enjoyable to me) but not necessarily embodying the moody travails the composer and other Danes expected from Oxenvad.
Two players known to have done dramatically memorable performances of the Nielsen are the Finnish clarinetist Olli Leppaniemi and Ricardo Morales (Philadelphia Orchestra), but neither has yet made commercial recordings of it.
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Author: ruben
Date: 2020-12-15 16:34
Seabreeze: the only recording I have found of Oxenvad is his playing of Nielsen's Serenata in Vano. His playing-and that of the ensemble-sounds a bit on the rough side to our modern ears. We are now used to pasteurized Camembert: the germs are taken out of it but also the flavor. Nielsen's concerto is supposed to be somewhat of a portrait of Oxenvad's mercurial, quirky personality.
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Author: JohnP
Date: 2020-12-15 17:31
You can hear the original dedicatees playing the Wind Quintet on YouTube. Listen to the clarinet and bassoon variation to get a flavour of what the Concerto must have sounded like played by Oxenvad.
https://youtu.be/AIwM6tQmfa4
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Author: Paul Globus
Date: 2020-12-15 19:55
I heard Stanley Drucker play it live many years ago and it was as stunning a performance as one can hear on the famous recording (he actually performed it four or five times over consecutive nights, as I recall).
Those were the days when the Nielsen was considered almost unplayable and few clarinetists even attempted it. Today, of course, its part of the repertoire of every advanced student.
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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2020-12-16 17:35
I'm sure by now there are very fine recordings available but the Drucker recording with the NY Philharmonc is fabulous and the one for all others to be compared to.
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Author: donald
Date: 2020-12-17 00:07
The Kjell-Inge Stevenson (not exact spelling) recording mentioned above was mentioned in an article many years ago as "closest to the Danish tradition". I'd recommend listening to multiple versions, but prioritise hunting this one down.
John (Jack) McCaw (originally from NZ, based in England most of his life, taught Rossi and encouraged him to start making clarinets) made a fine recording of this that I'd describe as a good contrast to the first.
Louis Cahuzac was the first to record it, and that's worth hearing, some really fine musical detail (in the orchestral accompaniment too, worth close attention to the orch).
There are many other recordings, lots are fairly bland, others try desperately to do something new with results that are... A bit desperate to my ears (but maybe interesting to others).
Close listening to those 3 recordings will give you a kaleidoscope of possibilities to consider.
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Author: seabreeze
Date: 2020-12-17 01:06
It's Kjell-Inge Stevensson. (I fixed the spelling in my post). In a master class, Drucker said he listened to the Cahuzac recording repeatedly for what he called "the purity of tone" in Cahuzac's performance and some guidance in structuring the cadenzas. Cahuzac was cautious in his tempo, in the staccato passages and treacherous overblown sections across the upper break, but his way of phrasing the cadenzas left a permanent mark on how Drucker and nearly all subsequent players pace the cadenzas and mark off the climax points.
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Author: cigleris
Date: 2020-12-17 02:13
Cahuzac was 76 when he recorded the work. It would be safe to assume he was aware of Age’s premier performance in the 20s. Perhaps he drew inspiration?
I should say that the Nielsen museum in Odense is well worth a visit if you happen to find yourself in Denmark. 2 hour train ride from Copenhagen.
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Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2020-12-18 05:02
I really enjoy the Drucker and Shifrin recordings, there are a few others. I think Julian Bliss tackled this, however I don't have any recoedings.
Maybe Julian will pop in and let us know if there is a recording of him! I think he did this with piano? Not sure. Memory is failing me sometimes.
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Author: Floydinoz
Date: 2020-12-18 06:37
Try Ib Erickson's recording here: Decca LXT-2979, Decca ACL-292, London LL-1142 © 1954, (p) 1954
I think it captures moods/expression of the piece really well
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