Previn Concerto

[Roger Jolly]

Hi Horace,
           I have no first hand experience with Mr. Previn, but it was the
London recordings that I was refering to, I guess I'll listen more closely
to the string sections the next time. It was the Gershwin recordings that
stuck in my memory. Barry Tuckwell and David Grey were the French Horn
players for the recordings, and the subject came up at a dinner just after
a concert. David is a friend and was the conductor of our local Symphony.
REgards Roger 




At 05:39 PM 21/09/98 -0700, you wrote:
>
>Roger,
>
>At 02:04 PM 9/21/1998 -0600, you wrote:
>>         But I have heard that Previn likes his piano at A441, have also
>>picked it up on some of his early recordings. the piano is a little sharp
>>of the Orchesra???? Go figure.
>
>The LA Phil pianos have been at (at least) 442 for at least 20 years.  Ditto,
>most of the other major halls in LA.
>
>In re: the piano being sharp to the orchestra.  Which recordings?  The London
>ones are all at a minimum (average) pitch of 442, but the oboes are
>consistently
>flat, the flutes mostly so, the clarinets flat in the low registers while
>sharp
>in the higher ones, the bassoons - well, they're bassoons, they're sharp,
>etc for 
>the other instruments.
>
>The ones from LA during his tenure were recorded at Royce Hall at UCLA,
>and, in that venue,
>the air conditioning has to be shut off during actual recording (it was not
>designed
>as a recording studio).  In this latter case, anything remotely resembling
>"in tune"
>playing on those recordings has more to do with the quality of the LA band
>than anything else
>
Roger Jolly
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