Mozart Clarinet Quintet

[Alan H]

I recorded the Mozart Clarinet Quintet with a string quartet of friends back in 1998 when I was working at Santa Clara University. The concert was one of the first in the new recital hall, which was lovely. I've been meaning to get those recordings up on YouTube forever.

Well I finally did it. Taken all together this is about 40 minutes of music.

You can give them a listen at the following URLS

First Movement
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcuaFhAgm1A

Second Movement
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwDX3mjiODM

Third Movement
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaES08iPGW8

Fourth Movement
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZDKmePp8GI

[Irish Jack O'Brian]

Thanks for posting. I hadn't heard the Quintet in many years. Lovely.

[Brian K]

Thank you, Alan. The clarinet quintet has always been one of my favorites and you played it splendidly. Do you still play?

[Alan H]

Thanks, gentlemen. yes, I still play. Currently I play in Klezmer band that has an alter ego that we call the Burns Supper Society...and we do jigs and reels and slow aires, etc. I play whistles in the celtic incarnation of the group.

I am hoping to make a connection with a cellist up in San Francisco turn into something extraordinary for a chamber concert in December. This would be a first outing and I'm hoping for Ralph Towners "Icarus"....something for "cello, six hands"....and yes, you read that right, and another original piece by the cellists boyfriend, who happens to play guitar. I suspect that this piece will be for soprano saxophone,electric guitar and electric cello, and maybe percussion. Fingers crossed.

[2a5t2f7]

Very nice, Alan! Wolfie and Anton would be proud. If I was guessing, a 1988 setup was probably a Buffet with Selmer HS* or **? Thanks for posting this. Your work and phrasing across the horn was very smooth and sensitive with very nice technique. Very pleasing to the ear.

[Alan H]

Very nice, Alan! Wolfie and Anton would be proud. If I was guessing, a 1988 setup was probably a Buffet with Selmer HS* or **? Thanks for posting this. Your work and phrasing across the horn was very smooth and sensitive with very nice technique. Very pleasing to the ear.

That was my 50's-vintage Buffet R-13 with a custom Jim Kanter mouthpiece made from a Rifau blank. Jim worked for decades in the Hollywood studios and his mouthpieces are now collectors items. He was my teacher at UCSB 1978-79.

My B-flat is a Selmer series 9, which is the last series they made with the straight tone holes. I love that horn.

I played an HS* in High School! I still have it as my second emergency backup mouthpiece. The first emergency backup is one of Jims earlier adaptations of a VanDoren mouthpiece.

[Detroitpete]

Alan,

WOW! Thanks for posting this!

[Brian K]

Hmmm...Klezmer. I've always enjoyed Klezmer music. Do you have any recordings from this group available? It's good of you to share your talents here!

[Macman]

Wonderful, Alan! Bravo! I just listened to a bit, and really enjoyed it. I'll catch up on the whole quintet when I get some quiet time.
Somehow, though, I had a hard time picturing, in my mind, you playing while I was listening, and I don't mean that in a bad way. It opens my mind to a whole new dimension of the man I know as Alan H on XMTS. Thanks for giving us the links, Alan.

[tripleblessed]

This thread brings to the fore the thing that I enjoy most about this forum,
the amazing people that hang out here, and the astonishing range of interests and skills they reveal. Have always enjoyed this piece, and have a good recording of Benny Goodman playing it. I have a very high threshold of disbelief,
as I have seen much weirdness, and have regularly done the improbable, the
unlikely, the impossible, and the stupid. Even I am struggling with the concept
of combining caber and clarinet! Congratulations, sir, and well played.