BaL 25.03.17 - Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A (K.622)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I don't think I'll rush to buy a new CD....the concerto lives in my head anyway as an amalgam of several discs I've got.

- the "chosen one" (just finished on Sunday Morning) was a perfectly good, stylish performance that I'm very pleased to have heard, but not so much to make me want to part with any money nor have any particular burning desire to hear again on the i-Player. It's a work that gets performed regularly, too - no need to add to the four in my collection.

[Pianorak]

Just caught up with this BAL. Glad to hear she seemed to approve of Carbonare/Abbado which I think is superb.

[mikealdren]

Also just caught up today, an excellent BAL.

Interesting final choice, safe but uninspired I thought (as so often on BAL). For me Fröst's amazing playing was quite in a class of its own as he so often is - I may need another version!

[Tony Halstead]

Also just caught up today, an excellent BAL.

Interesting final choice, safe but uninspired I thought (as so often on BAL). For me Fröst's amazing playing was quite in a class of its own as he so often is - I may need another version!

[Barbirollians]

I have been listening to the winner again today . I do not agree with safe and uninspired as a description at all. The recording was live and to me it has a real sense of occasion. The recording I really like and Venzago and the RNS do not provide one of those smooth unruffled accompaniments a la Marriner . The slow movement is outstanding haunting and moving but without any syrup . Frost's recording for me is one I liked at first but grew weary of too much about Frost and not Mozart for me .