Mozart - Clarinet concert in A - Part 1- Vlad Weverbergh - Terra Nova Collective

Live recording on a basset clarinet during Klara in deSingel January 2018. Performance on period instruments.

[@hori166]

In response to musikerman59: this is not a clarinet, but a basset clarinet, the instrument for which the concerto was originally written. The fact that the instrument being played even exists is a miracle. No original instrument survives. By chance in 1992, a concert program dated 1794 with a sketch of it was discovered in a library in Riga, Latvia. Anton Stadler, for whom the concerto was written, was the soloist. This sketch was used to painstakingly reconstruct the kind of instrument being played in this video. The other point is that this version uses the original orchestration, i.e. fewer instruments than many modern interpretations, resulting in a more intimate sound. One either likes original instruments or not. I prefer the sound of a Steinway to a Stein fortepiano, the instrument that Mozart knew and composed on and for. But this interpretation is quite beautiful and unique in that it is conducted by the soloist, which would not be possible in a larger orchestra.

[@prager5046]

"this is not a clarinet" The basset clarinet is still a type of clarinet...

[@danyelnicholas]

@@prager5046 one might call it a small basset horn and Mozart indeed first seems to have conceived it for a cor de bassette en sol. But I would also consider this instrument in A a clarinet, though a particularly nice one.

[@bunebone]

This is what i need to hear in my life

[@vladweverbergh3078]

Thank you soo much!

[@prager5046]

Fantastic! a completely a new sonic experience. For me this is the best rendition for the greatest clarinet concerto ever composed

[@tropicalstrings]

The sound is so warm. Ill never be able to listen to a modern clarinet any more. Beauty.

[@baldwin9180]

Heavenly music! These authentic instruments are the best. I love them so much!

[@noiracor]

Fantastico senza parole

[@oboe161274]

Bravo Vlad Weverbergh!!!!!!

[@dakleik]

In my personal view, this is the best version of this piece available in KZbin. Thank you very much. Wonderful soloist. The orchestra has incredible sound and I don’t think they needed the soloist as conductor in the tuttis

[@DanieleSRD]

I agree completely with you, hard to find such a quality.

[@DanieleSRD]

Una registrazione di alto livello e musicisti eccezionali. Complimenti.

[@cutalin]

This made me smile, such a richness of sounds and melody.

[@unclefrank8987]

love this sound, simply wonderful ......

[@bandgeek6778]

The basset clarinet is one of my favorite auxiliary clarinets.

[@Ilja-oblomow]

So good!!!!! A discover for me today! Thanks a lot!! Mozart is alive!

[@hudsoncampos5976]

Beautiful

[@danyelnicholas]

Great reconstruction of one of the most lovely instruments in history (now that you play it not only Mozart thinks that). Somewhat scary to watch, because it happened to me years ago when I let the reed string dangling like this that it got caught in the register key. BTW is there any evidence of the poor period wind players having had to stand?

[@MissVonCAditiTaruna]

beautiful!

[@dileepgangolli6514]

Wow. Wonderful performance. Thank you for posting.

[@EnsambleMusicabarroca]

Beautiful general sound! And the recording too! Outstanding! Suscribed .

[@olivierpateyclarinet]

Magnifique! Bravo Vlad

[@tristanrush5526]

Well done

[@ferikovacs69]

Awesome!

[@curufin89]

Great!!

[@ckrygerhotmailcom]

Why the few likes?! :) This is by far the best version of this concerto performed on period instruments I have ever heard. Bravo! Being a pianist myself I’m used to play an instrument where all notes are in tune, I’m curious why the clarinet sometimes is a little off pitch in the high register?

[@seltzerwater1013]

Christian Kryger i think it’s the acoustical compromises on the instrument that aren’t perfectly in tune aside from the temperament

[@toddsterben6647]

The thirds on a piano beat miserably. Equal temperament spreads the out of tuneness equally. Only octaves are in tune, 5ths, not so bad

[@LordFloofTM]

@christian kryger Undergrad Clarinet Major here! I bet a good reason why is that the notes in the upper half of the clarion register are extremely malleable and require a very careful and precise voicing that takes years to perfect. Often times if you have register jumps or fly through your range, you might not get the exactly in tune pitch. Also, What’s considered in-tune can change. A disadvantage you have as a pianist is that your instrument is in equal temperament, so while a clarinet, or a brass instrument by use of lips, or a string player by adjusting their fingers can make very slight adjustments to their tone in the chord they play so it can be EXACTLY in tune with the chord and produce the warmest, most desirable sound possible, even if it’s just a change by a couple cents. Also, just to cover all bases, a few notes on clarinet tend flat, namely the throat tones [our G up to our B flat, on a B flat instrument the sounding F up to the A flat and on an A clarinet such as one that would be used for this concerto a sounding E to a G] so that might also answer your question. Sorry to be a year late but better late than never :)

[@prager5046]

@@toddsterben6647 Your majesty, we would like to hear your version then...

[@toddsterben6647]

View this kzbin.info/www/bejne/r4DYaqywls6Nbck

[@aleksandarbrzic8351]

A revelation !💥

[@Raphael-fg9lc]

Fascinating performance. I wonder who wrote the reconstruction of the solist part used here. I heard of several attempts. Besides the engraving on Riga concert programs shows the bell turned inwards (which looks quite impractical) not outwards like Mr Weverbergh's instrument.

[@fautpasrever0]

You can’t imagine how hard it is to play this instrument

[@TerraNovaCollective]

Yes I can!

[@LordFloofTM]

@@TerraNovaCollective you don’t have to 😆

[@musikerman52]

Respect for this, playing with this period instrument with such a brilliance! (Crusell, by the way, many times was complaining over the instruments intonation and sound, and he played of course with the best ones. Nowadays we have clarinets, that he would want to have so why not use them?)

[@adampasztor6187]

perhaps to relieve the sound that Mozart may have heard. Period concerts, and historical musicians usually love the more "harsh" and natural sound of the instruments and the colours that they produce.

[@musikerman52]

@@hori166 "not a clarinet but a basset clarinet" - quite cryptic, as basset clarinet is one of the clarinet family members... of course I noticed that both with my eyes and ears.

[@corrigenda70]

Because many like to appreciate and understand the deliberate way that Mozart set out to ensure that Stadler would find it difficult?

[@toddsterben6647]

@@adampasztor6187 Strange that, to me, modern instruments sound really harsh and loud.

[@hori166]

@@musikerman52 Not as cryptic as basset "horn", the modern term, don't you think?

[@walkthataisle]

I think they also need to dress in period clothes. Seriously though, I appreciate groups like this that aim to be as authentic to how the music would have sounded..

[@AntonioRosalesBcl]

Why the massive amplified sound with a quite long reverb effect? Is it not against to the HIP style?

[@richardwebb2348]

Reverberation time varies from room to room - it is not an 'effect'. There is no HIP acoustic.

[@AntonioRosalesBcl]

@@richardwebb2348 I believe it is not the acoustic of the room what sounds on this recording but a digitalized effect on the recording. That's OK, I am not specially interested on historical instruments but I know well that the reason for its use is to get close to the old times as good as it gets. If it includes here to "then to process the sound with a digital effect" I am OK too, it is just weird.

[@Phoenixspin]

That's a strange-looking baton he has in his hands.

[@jonathanf4300]

Do they play on 430hz?

[@TerraNovaCollective]

432!

[@danyelnicholas]

@@TerraNovaCollective Hope the temperature doesn't drop sometimes by 2°!

[@ezequielbelizariodasilva2256]

442 hz?

[@chuckardenstrike6809]

5:48 if u noticed

[@philipritter3642]

That haircut tho

[@chelorec]

I had to re-calibrate my tuner to A435Hz to get in tune (pulling the barrel out quite a bit) it actually felt really good play in the older tuning system felt more natural.

[@skarlatospanagiotis5000]

using instrument of 1800 and having baldness of 2018 is a kind of joke ?

[@tpark89]

Sick burn

[@skarlatospanagiotis5000]

@@jaysparc I believe you confuse me with you

[@danyelnicholas]

Generally by 1792 all sorts of hair do and un-do were conceivable. The music of, say, Lully is another matter.