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Tuckwell overshadowed

Ryan Kouroukis | Toronto, Ontario Canada | 02/21/2008

(3 out of 5 stars)

"This recording sounds too big for what it should be. Maag and The London orchestra is overwhelming for early Tuckwell, it sounds like he just pushes his instument enough to be able to sound over the orchestra. Maag and Tuckwell are not delicate enough, just lound and bombast.



Go for Tuckwell and Marriner on EMI for a more realistic and Mozartian version!"

More of Maag's Magnificent Mozart

Michael B. Richman | Portland, Maine USA | 11/12/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"A few years ago when I purchased (and reviewed) the import Eloqeunce CD Mozart: Clarinet Concerto; Weber: Clarinet Concerto No. 2; Spohr: Clarinet Concerto No. 1 [Australia], I hoped that conductor Peter Maag's other magnificent Mozart recordings for Decca would also be released. Of course, selections have appeared over the years (in Decca's domestic "Legends" series, and through a licensing agreement to the Testament label), but these Australian reissues finally make all of the recordings available for the first time, however they have been issued as four separate single discs. This title collects soloist Barry Tuckwell's performances of the Horn Concertos -- Nos. 1 & 3 are from 1959 and Nos. 2 & 4 hail from 1961 -- and the Notturno for Four Orchestras, also from 1959. Maag's accounts are crisp, clean and well-articulated, and he presents the London Symphony Orchestra in top form. With these CDs currently available so inexpensively from numerous Amazon Marketplace vendors, interested parties should act quickly."