Mozart: Clarinet Concerto KV622 [SACD]

The Clarinet by Jack Brymer

Advantages: Covers all aspects of playing/history of clarinet
Disadvantages: May be too in depth for the average player!

If you play the clarinet and interested in finding out a little more about it than the fact that it?s black, about 2 feet long with a single reed, try Jack Brymer?s ?Clarinet? from the Yehudi Menuhin Series. If you don?t play the clarinet, may I ask why not?! You can pick one up quite cheaply and they are as easy to learn in the early stages as the recorder, but sound a lot cooler-go on- I dare you! Once you?ve mastered the basics this book will serve as a valuable friend and teacher through the more taxing grades. I picked it up at about grade 5, and still pick it up for advice today, with a music degree under my belt. If you?re vaguely serious about the instrument, it?s worth the mere £9.95 it will put you out of pocket. A word on the author- Jack Brymer was clarinet king. His recordings of the Mozart clarinet concerto and quintet ...

Tricksty 10.08.2004 · Read full review
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Cheap Reeds For Clarinet, But Poor Quality

Advantages: cheap
Disadvantages: low quality, split easily

Rico clarinet reeds were the first ones I was introduced to when I started to play clarinet. These a re natural reeds and tend to vary in quality. I started with a very soft one (they range form 1 to 5) and progressed through to a three. I have never got any further. Reeds can be expensive and beginning and less practised clarinet players tend to go through quite a lot of them. I have found a few split reeds and ones that were so thin that they were almost like paper at their tips among the reeds in a box of Rico standard ones. Rico reeds are cheap but they are also low quality. The Rico reeds tend to take time to break in and once they are suitably moist and playing well, they tend to split and have to be replaced. The Vandoren reeds are more expensive and they last longer but they tend to be a little bit harder than the Rico ...

jan007 07.06.2009 · Read full review
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Melodious Mozart, perfectly played

Advantages: Excellent performances in a perfect setting
Disadvantages: Very minor quibbles

Background: When it comes to prodigious over-achievers, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has to be placed somewhere at the top of the list. Despite his tragically short life from 1756-1791, his musical creativity has assured him of eternal fame as long as human civilisation performs Western classical music. But when one considers Mozart's background, one can understand where his genius came from. His father Leopold Mozart was a virtuoso violinist whose treatise on violin playing is still a standard read for any aspiring violin student today. It is also worth considering how things might have been different had female instrumentalists been able to pursue a professional career as adults - as his beloved sister Nannerl was no mean keyboard player, but obviously once she became an adult it was not really considered the done thing for her ...

Maestrolover 26.02.2008 · Read full review
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