Entremont, who contributed an oddly unfocused performance of the Mozart Piano Concerto No. 39 at the end, though, sounded prosaically matter-of-fact, and the orchestra itself was showing signs already of mid-season fatigue, with some sour wind intonation. Mata's statement of the Mozart Symphony No. Stoltzman and who led a neat account of the contemporary Swedish composer Dag Wiren's neo-Classical Serenade for String Orchestra (1937) at the outset. The conductor was Eduardo Mata, who proved a deft accompanist for Mr.
It is that rhythmic alacrity that allows him to hold an audience's attention even when he drops his playing to a hushed dymanic level that might otherwise sound impossibly mannered. He does so through his intuitively graceful sense of phrasing, his teasing rubato and his quite remarkable rhythm. But Stoltzman turns an ordinarily ugly-sounding noise into something esthetically meaningful he lets us hear abrasiveness as fragility. His tone, for instance, grows uncomfortably ''white'' - the musical term for a marked absence of vibrato - in its upper reaches, making pitch perilous. Stoltzman's way with a phrase, and perhaps even more interestingly, his ability to transform seeming technical limitations into expressive statements. Spohr has fallen a long distance from the days when he was ranked with Beethoven, but his solidly Germanic idiom remains reminiscent of that greater master, and this concerto had its easy-going charms.īut what lifted the performance into memorability was Mr. His vehicle (not counting the Schubert ''Arpeggione'' Sonata in the pre- concert recital, with Philippe Entremont, pianist) was Ludwig Spohr's Clarinet Concerto No. Stoltzman was far and away the most enlivening element at the otherwise rather workaday Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra concert Monday night in Avery Fisher Hall, a program that will be repeated there tonight.
Some clarinetists complain that his technique is hardly impeccable, and snobs are appalled at his Pavarottian appearances on the Tonight Show. Richard Stoltzman is a big star in today's music world, but he has not achieved his current eminence without a certain degree of controversy.
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