DIE VIRTUOSE KLARINETTE GRIECHENLANDS
LE CLARINO VIRTUOSE DE LA GRECE
Disques Cellier, 1980, CA631 67.469
These recordings made by the German ethnomusicologist Wolf Dietrich focus on the clarinet (klarino in Greek). Introduced by the Gypsies during the 19th century it is played throughout continental Greece. All the musicians except in B2 and B3 are Gypsies.
The majority of these recordings made in the field comes from Epirus and Macedonia two strongholds of clarinet playing.
Dietrich insists on the fact that this kind of music was fast disappearing when he was in Greece at the end of the 1970's. Entirely acoustic originally the musical practice evolved (too much for Dietrich) toward an electric amplification with loud speakers always blasting for a maximum effect on the public to the cost of fine ornementations in singing and instrument playing. What Dietrich calls ''western gadgets'' can often damage the music, it is true.
Unfortunately none of the musicians are identified only the places are mentionned like Parakalamos a well known spot for good epirot music.
Marcel Cellier the publisher was an important actor in the diffusion of different musics from the Balkan; I'll talk about him when I post other field recordings of his.
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