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Post Subject: Mozart Concertos; Clarinet K 622 and Bassoon K 191Posted by Paul S on: 7/13/2008
Well, there's "Mozart", and then there's Mozart...
Leopold Emmer conducts the Vienna Pro Musica Orchestra; Vox PL 8870, 1954
Rudolf Jettel plays the clarinet for the A Major Concerto. He has all the skill and control to get every note in every register, and he shifts registers like most player do notes. This is a good thing, because the peice pretty much demands this skill as a starting point. Fortunately, Jettel is also an artist, and Emmer gets it done with depth, power and flair while Jettel makes you glad that Mozart continued with this sort of work well into his maturity.
Bravo.
Leo Cermak actually makes the bassoon musical (if not "dynamic"), and the early work (B flat major; composed by Mozart at 18 years) is as well realized as I have ever heard one of these pieces done. Very nice, and well worth listening to.
I don't know Emmer at all, but I wish he and the Pro Musica were here in San Diego for the local "Mainly Mozart Festival", which I make an annual point of avoiding.
BTW, this is a very nice recording, as well. It works better in "mono", unlike some of the later stuff that is "bi-naural" and sounds better in "stereo".
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