Ferdinand Steiner

...Following the great Viennese tradition and the example of world-famous
clarinettists such as Rudolf Jettl or Peter Schmidl, the soloist Ferdinand
Steiner interprets the score using a lyrical cantilena consisting of
Mozartian ornamentation and melodic contemplation (magically-played
piano reprises are heard, for example, in the Adagio). The instrument's
glorious tone sequences never sound like a set of routinely fixed notes.
Instead, a wonderfully-phrased and richly-nuanced legibility produces a
compelling interpretation, the overall impression of which is, unfortunately,
too affected - one must ask, why the unfitting 'show-cadenza'?
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