Author: Bobo
Date: 2007-01-13 14:22
Neil Black is a wonderful player. His Mozart quartet is right up there with Gomberg's and Ferrillo's. He also has a nice Vaughan Williams on a Barenboim/English Chamber Orch. recording of VW/Delius british pieces (a great album with a priceless Zukerman version of Lark Ascending just to go OT). He has a beautiful lively tone, but it still has a dark (by Brit standards), focused sound. He's my favorite British player by far, though maybe not as strong on a purely technical level as a Nicholas Daniels. His version of the Strauss is not, however, one of my favorites...he actually makes a serious mistake, I think in the first movement. My favorite Strauss's are Klein, Koch and DeLancie, more or less in that order. (Not familiar with PCooper's).
Alan Vogel, yes is a hybrid in terms of influence, and I agree his sound is really unique, he has such a soft touch and tremendous control of the instrument...it seems like his tone on Bach's Circle is consciously baroque-like, almost like a period instrument while he sounds more modern on the Obsession album. Anyway, he's in a class, if not a league, of his own.
Post Edited (2007-01-13 14:24)
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