A masterpiece! A perfect duet - so much as classics englobes improvisation in a quite generous and skilfull way. Bravo!

Simplemente fantástico!! Artistas de súper primer nivel tocando el concierto de Artie Shaw que ya es un clásico del jazz !!

Qué maravilla, un regalo para los oídos, el batería es un crak.Enhorabuena, fantásticos los tres.

Very interesting! First time I've heard Artie Shaw's concerto for clarinette played as duet. Very nice counterpart. Maybe Artie would have enjoyed this.

@richardlaine9994

3 жыл бұрын

This is a jazz piece, so I'm sure that Artie Shaw most definitely would have appreciated the novel improvisations and the give-and-take of the duet format, since his small-group recordings always had excellent interplay among the musicians. Most of all, I think that he would have appreciated the thoroughly jazz oriented approach. He himself observed that too many people try to interpret this piece in a purely classical way, and that when they do so, it never quite comes off properly.

@Sacto_Dave

Жыл бұрын

Most of the solo is in rubato so playing around with the time and improvising just adds to it. I'm sure Artie Shaw would approve. Well, maybe. I heard he was pretty hard to get along with so you never know. I love the idea of making it into a duet. These two worked brilliantly together. The harmonies made a great piece even better. I've worked on this piece on and off over the years. The music isn't all that difficult even for an amatuer like me but making the extreme high end of the instrument's range sound pretty and musical is the challenge. I've heard other versions but I think I like this one best. In others the players sound like classical musicians playing jazz. These guys make it swing like it was intended to sound.

No hay palabras, es irrepetible

Grandiosos!!

Madre mía! !!!!!......Que espectáculo!!!!!!

Fabulous playing. God bless you all. Bill. UK

Impresionante!!!

This is so good! I love Paquito! Great job Vincente! 🎼🎵🎶

Incríveis! Sensacional! Muito espetacular!!!

Maravilloso ❤

Excellent !

Bravo !!!!

Bravo !!!

This is great.

fantàstic !!!!!

Sensacional, belíssima interpretação!!! 12/Abril/2021 🎧🎧❤️❤️🎶🎶🇧🇷🇧🇷

Brutal!!!!!!!

Bravo. Im sure Artie would be pleased with it while critical at the same time, but he WAS after all Artie Shaw who played this on his own.

Brilliant what a pair ! I love it so many classical :(straight players think they can play i!!!!!! it ain’t what you do it’s how You do it ) both are. Jazzers you can. Hear it ! I loved every moment and will listen oven and over Bravo !!!!!!!,D

@vicentalberola9647

5 жыл бұрын

Darryl Walters thanks!!!

@Qladstone

3 жыл бұрын

Don't get me wrong, I think it was pretty good, but the music sheet should not have been there.

SUPERRRRRRR!!!!

Wow! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

W O O O O W !!!!

Ah yes, just as Artie Shaw did it, playing the clarinet and also directing the orchestra.

El pianista no entra y Paquito le marca cómo es jejeje fantástico!

This recording helps make up for all the bad Artie Shaw attempts out there on You Tube, including Artie Shaw himself.

@richardlaine9994

3 жыл бұрын

I agree that there are a lot of bad attempts out there on KZread, and I can spot them during the opening bars of the piece. Too many try to interpret this piece as if it were a classical work and never get it quite right . But to imply that Artie himself is somehow lacking??? Really??? I've always thought his version is the ''benchmark'' that serves as a point of departure... I'm certain Shaw always gave his best effort at everything, and wouldn't have tolerated anything shoddy from himself or others. He always took his work very seriously, even saying of himself, "I'm cursed with serious-mindedness. . . " If you read Shaw's 1952 autobiography, "The Trouble with Cinderella," you will not be able to escape noticing how seriously he always took not only his craft, but himself. The book is as much a work of philosophy as biography. Definitely it is not your typical Hollywood memoir! I concede that you are entitled to your opinion about Shaw's own version of his piece, and it seems not to take your fancy. Fine---you don't have to agree with me. At least we both feel that as a piece of music, Artie Shaw's Concerto has a lot to recommend it. Like you, I very much enjoyed this duet version. It is a great way to bring an element of novelty to a composition that, more and more, is becoming mainstream and much better known. An approach such as this certainly helps to guard against the monotony that is so often a part of repetition.

@saxefoner

3 жыл бұрын

@@richardlaine9994 I'm sorry for making the ridiculous comment against Artie Shaw. I just meant to express how much I enjoyed this version, that it was even better than the original.

@richardlaine9994

3 жыл бұрын

@@saxefoner It's all right, my friend; I wasn't looking for an apology, but thank you for that touching gesture---it is hugely appreciated. For my own part, I only hope I did a good enough job of couching my response in terms that weren't too harsh. Certainly I always had it in mind to restrain myself. That is why I made a point of acknowledging the possibility that maybe you didn't like Shaw's own version, and that you had a right to your own opinion, even if I couldn't personally find it easy to believe. Even at the time, I was conscious of not wanting to dwell on anything negative, but just to get it out of the way and be done with it. I'm very sorry that I evidently misunderstood you. I too, enjoyed this performance last evening, on first hearing, and am simialrly getting a kick out of it now. What a feat to dovetail all those phrases so nicely together, and what a great job they do sharing all that complex passagework between themselves. They are also impeccably in tune together---which is sensational. Up there in that highest ''altissimo" range any discrepancy of tuning is greatly magnified. It is so taxing to play in that register for any great length of time, supposing one manages to produce the pitches with accurate intonation. I speak from personal long experience ( almost 40 years ) as a clarinetist; I wanted to ask: do you play clarinet yourself? From your username, I gather you most certainly are a saxophonist---on what size of horn? Do normally find yourself doubling a lot on clarinet, and / or other woodwinds? I got a real charge just now from hearing how the two clarinetists divided the stratospheric closing section between themselves, with one improvising passages between the other's sounding of the successively higher notes as originally written. ( I do in fact, have a piano score of this work, with long rests indicating the passages for the orchestra ). Don't you love the "cuckoo calls" just before the end? The final glissando to the highest C ( above high C ) is electrifying!!! Warmest regards, from Richard Laine.

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👍👍

Lui est pas mal...

The orchestra gets a little behind at times

1:08 :)

@vicentalberola9647

4 жыл бұрын

Hahajajajajanna

not in sync. needed more rehearsals.

@vicentalberola9647

3 жыл бұрын

Siempre se necesitan mas ensayos , vaya tonteria acabas de decir!!!!! Jajaja

@federicozimerman8167

3 жыл бұрын

muchos más ensayos😂