My absolute favorite recording of the Clarinet Concerto and Clarinet Quintet comes from Martin Frost. Martin Fröst does neither; and his interpretative acumen reaches the nub of the slow movement, in effect an operatic aria of tender pathos for a high and low voice communicated through a single instrument. Bärenreiter incorporated the reconstruction into its New Mozart Edition; but clarinettists also suggest their own modifications. Tighter direction from Gottfried von der Goltz might have neutralised reservations but, as matters stand, Coppola doesn’t delve. If, however, in her quest for depth of understanding King is sometimes a mite constrained, her recording is nevertheless a pivotal point in the concerto’s interpretation. Her chillingly glib performance is as empty as a shell. What are the finest recordings of Mozart&'s Clarinet Concerto? He is a musician of cultivated taste but he reticently understates his role, also imitating Meyer in glossing over the raison d’être of the basset, its low notes. None is extant. Her sweet-sour tone glints and fades like light reflected off a revolving prism; and by adding varied tongue strokes to enhance passages left bare of markings, she creates in the expanded spans Mozart wrote for the basset a phrase-to-phrase tension that wouldn’t otherwise exist. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. Friday, January 17, 2014. In 1791, the last year of his life, Mozart wrote the Clarinet Concerto. Welcome a new clarinet, or to be precise a clarinet for which – it is now accepted – Mozart wrote the concerto. Reginald Kell, renowned and sought after, presents a steely yet songful performance as valuable today as it was then. Or in his next letter to her on October 14, describing his delight at the success of Die Zauberflöte and only voicing some concern about finding a good school for their young son Carl. Instead the layout of the whole sequence, from bar 331, dictates that they ought to be played an octave lower. Bald fact: not all proponents of the modern clarinet believe in the basset. The last work wondrously achieved. Find recording details and track inforamtion for Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on AllMusic This is an excellent recording of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto and Clarinet Quintet. The soloist uses an 18th century clarinet which has some lower notes not found on modern clarinets and which Mozart utilized when he wrote these compositions. Was Mozart visionary in such circumstances? Yes they are; and from a French copy of an instrument made for Stadler, so these might be the sort of sonorities he drew too. The last concerto, valedictory and visionary. Buy download online. But he cannot sustain the concerto on his own. Stale routine is eschewed; in its place, an act of adventurous analysis, artistically managed. Even so, Mozart’s last piano concerto has an unmistakable mature grace and serenity. Why not register today and enjoy the following great benefits: Fröst ‘sings’ this Adagio, his masterly technique in command of shaded tone, long line and detail. And there, in September, Stadler gave his last documented performance. *HQ Audio*, Bo Diddley and Ron Wood - Live At The Ritz (DVD), RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS: How Deep Is Your Love (Bee Gees Cover), ROBERT MILLIS: Indian Talking Machine (Limited 2CD+Book), ERIC BURDON: The irrepressible beast – interview, HMV VINYL: Phil Collins - No Jacket Required - Limited Edition Orange Vinyl. BEETHOVEN: Why Beethoven tugs at the heart strings: The rhythms of the German composer's music may have been prompted by a ... VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Philip Dukes / James Gilchrist / Anna Tilbrook Songs of Travel - Songs and Chamber Works, Interconnect length vs speaker cable length. Yet he turns in a distinguished performance, of embellishments in excellent taste and nuanced responses to modulations, as between 9'29" and 9'51" in the first movement when the key advances through A minor, C major, E minor and D minor. This works very well in the Concerto, since it incorporates some of the melodic material in the Concerto. You’ll notice that the cover shows Shifrin with two clarinets. Take a musical deep dive into Mozart. Readers used to the sleekly disciplined Karajan of maturity – as demonstrated on his 1971 recording with Karl Leister, the BPO’s then principal clarinet – might be taken aback by his 1949 persona that offers Leopold Wlach an animatedly thrusting but accommodating partnership to which he responds with alacrity. Its absolutely gorgeous and pristine sound quality. Could Mozart, who finished this concerto about eight weeks before he died, have been anything other than valedictory? Eric Hoeprich does – to a degree. Though his dynamic gradations are limited, he has a cogent understanding of structure and shape, and a good feeling for content too. Maximiliano Martin tries to. Boxwood. There aren’t any answers, of course. The result is stirring indeed. It’s a magical close to a movement that might be Mozart’s poignant farewell to Anna Maria, his baby daughter, who had died not that long ago. Could you be unorthodox within orthodoxy? But disparity dogs the outer movements. His sympathetic ministrations seem to have little effect on an earthbound soloist, Vladimír Říha, whose playing is tonally monotonous and lacking in inner life. Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto, widely regarded as the greatest clarinet concerto and his last instrumental work, was completed in October 1791, less than two months before the composer’s death at the age of just 35. Let’s for the moment say valedictory. Then I orchestrated almost the entire Rondo of the Stadler concerto.’ No premonitions of death here. Wolfgang Meyer; Concentus Musicus Wien / Nikolaus Harnoncourt. The notes slickly polished but bullishly propelled? 24 in C minor. Robert Marcellus made his debut as assisting artist with the Cleveland Orchestra on March 29–31, 1956, when he played Mozart's Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra in A major, K.622. And it’s no flash in the pan. How? This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Building a Library on Mozart's final purely instrumental work, his Clarinet Concerto - written for his friend Anton Stadler. I really like Sabine Meyer's rendition, but I've read in another post that Robert Marcellus has an excellent one also. In contrast, Sabine Meyer is the last word in abandon; but to what purpose? Not successfully, though. “If there is a bel canto school of clarinet playing, Shifrin is surely its finest exponent,” wrote the Los Angeles Times. Fabio di Casola (clarinet), Daniele Galaverna (bassoon), Kenneth Henderson (horn), Silvia … Still and all, Mozart lovers will find both a bargain and a gold mine upon acquiring this disc. Andrew Marriner, with Neville Marriner, tried to revive the vogue in 2004. I honestly think this is my absolute FAVORITE pieces ever composed by Mozart (and yes, that includes the clarinet concerto)!! Gramophone is part of Who for decades confronted the status quo, challenged established certainties and dared listeners to think outside the box? --Jed Distler Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. In one respect, though, Brymer intrigues. But such recreative distinction wasn’t to be expanded, let alone repeated. Conductor and soloist don’t see eye to eye, Marcellus elegant of phrase and bewitchingly cultivated in sound at odds with Szell’s powerful profiling and famed rhythmic exactitude. And he, at his third stab (the second, in the 1960s, was with Colin Davis but has since disappeared) is a model of self-possessed equanimity. Only Goodman’s misguided zeal casts a shadow. Shortly after the war Kell emigrated to the US and in 1950 he recorded the work with the Zimbler Sinfonietta, an eminent American band. The other movements are less arresting, not as tight-knit as they might be. The ultimate accolade is earned and deserved. [citation needed] The only relic of this concerto written in Mozart's hand is an excerpt of an earlier rendition of the concerto written for basset horn in G (K. 584b/621b). But he has nothing particular to say about the music. The Barry Tuckwell horn concerto recordings and Gervase de Peyer clarinet concerto reading are the best in the catalog, both combining virtuoso execution with innate musical expression. Hard, close-grained, yellow and sensitive to atmospheric conditions; but it was the material of choice for clarinets of the day. What are the finest recordings of Mozart&'s Clarinet Concerto? The performances are first rate and the recording is well done. It’s a lone crusade for what ought to be an equitably shared journey, which this one is not. He is a musician with ideas of his own but is dampened by Leonard Bernstein, who is surprisingly flat-footed and uneventful; prosaic, too, in the slow movement. His playing, of unimpeachable technique, fine finish and spotless manners, epitomises a deferential approach to Mozart that had, post-war, become the norm; and an anachronism afterwards. Browse: Mozart - Clarinet Concerto in A major, K622 This page lists all recordings of Clarinet Concerto in A major, K622 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91). Mozart: The Great Piano Concertos, Vol. My personal favorite on a traditional A clarinet was recorded in 1961 by the brilliant clarinetist Robert Marcellus with the Cleveland Orchestra conducted by George Szell. Find recording details and track inforamtion for Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on AllMusic Is there a choice? Haydn Draper made the first recording in 1929 (Brunswick 20076‑8), followed by Luigi Amodio and François Etienne. The best recordings of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto; Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson. Then I orchestrated almost the entire Rondo of the Stadler concerto.’ No premonitions of death here. And a wind of change, prescient of an emotional dimension in the music not entirely noticed before, blows in to break the outdated anodyne mould. Come the first tutti, he tautens the rhythm and prominently swaggering natural horns step in, stepping in prominently at every tutti where prescribed in the two Allegros, some more driven than others, some more swaggering and fiercely stressed than others. Concentrate on the orchestra, and notice the topmost line, especially rich in the selectively deployed sound of two flutes. Wolfgang Meyer, a Deinzer pupil with a Tutz replica as well, is in total sympathy but still the soloist, weaving his own spell everywhere, his musicianship fine-tuned to an expressive reach and a spellbinding spectrum of tonal subtleties. Yet in his letter from Vienna to Constanze in Baden, written at midnight on October 7, 1791, he says, ‘I smoked a glorious pipe of tobacco. Sound Quality: 7. Fabio Di Càsola plays the standard edition, occasionally retouched, and Boyd champions him to the hilt. Even John Barbirolli couldn’t persuade him to drop his guard. Hoeprich nevertheless stays above water, thoughtful in his survey of the music, especially so in the Adagio. This excerpt is nearly identical to the corresponding section in the published version for A clarinet. Misgivings nag. Benny Goodman also threw his hat into the ring in 1940. 1 With the talents of the Academy of St Martin in the Field … The upshot: a mid-20th-century performance on 18th-century instruments – and a cop-out. There you have it; superlative clarinet-playing, superlative conducting and a penetrating look beyond the notes. In essence Anton Stadler, for whom the work was composed, owned a custom-built instrument with an extended range. A year later the Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung compared this with the original (or copy) and confirmed the conversion inauthentic. The orchestra not resourcefully conducted? Mozart’s last concerto presents unique challenges to those recording the work, finds Nalen Anthoni. Twelve years later Antony Pay offers a considered proposition. Beethoven’s last piano concerto, the ‘Emperor’, can’t help but go first. MA Music, Leisure and Travel All | CDs | DVDs: Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K.622 (3rd movement) But what about inner anxieties, passing twinges of dis‑ease, the dives into depression? You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. He alters the solo part to mitigate the effects of some of its clumsy compromises and his solutions are about as good as they get in the circumstances. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website. Reginald Kell survives, and his 1940 recording, enhanced by conductor Malcolm Sargent in fiery rapport, is no historic fossil. Stadler, who played the clarinet and basset horn, had been a close friend of Mozart’s since the e… Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Fabio Di Càsola; Musikkollegium Winterthur / Douglas Boyd. But…stay awhile. I asked Antony why he felt it time to return to the concerto. The recorded sound is very good. Listen to the 15-bar coda, the soloist partnered by only strings until the end when the winds return and flutes in sixths cast an incandescent glow – an ethereal backdrop to the basset way down below. BLOP888 Alan Hacker played one such for his first London performance in 1969, as probably did Thea King for her recording. Boyd contributes a continuously symbiotic framework for Di Càsola to build an interpretation where tone, dynamics, articulation and accents are varied to mirror a range of moods suggested by melody, phrase and harmony. Let’s just savour the Adagio once more. Deinzer produces a slender tone, probably characteristic of both instrument and reed. Marvelous recording. Now, here’s a real bargain–some of the greatest recordings of much of Mozart’s best music at the Double Decca two-for-one price. Affekt predominates, contrasts are marked, but classical proportions aren’t breached. Events then took a strange turn. Antony had worked with Robert Bailey and an earlier incarnation of the Michaelangelo [sic] orchestra for a 1998 recording of the Mozart Clarinet Concerto, released as a CD on the Musical Fidelity label (MF018). Tempo varies too as phrases are distended or relaxed, then released into pulse. He omits bar 333 in the first movement because the notes here repeat the previous bar. His idea of deference simply comes across as bland and insouciant; Marriner père smooth, dapper and unfazed, a formula foisted on Jack Brymer too. Mozart now talks tough, the genteel image drops away. With 27 to his name, it's a bit tricky to isolate one piano concerto … Talich isn’t as lucky. The best recordings of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto James McCarthy Friday, January 17, 2014 Register now to continue reading Thank you for visiting Gramophone and making use of our archive of more than 50,000 expert reviews, features, awards and blog articles. EMI CDM 567 6012 . It’s strikingly dissimilar, a pale reflection of the non-conformist who had once brought colour and drama to his interpretation. Well, consider as an example bars 187 to 191 in the first movement. Mozart’s last concerto presents unique challenges to those recording the work, finds Nalen Anthoni. Modern bassets initially used in the UK were normal instruments, their lower joints replaced with specially built extensions. Selected Discography (Date / Artists / Record company (review date)), 1940 Kell; LPO / Sargent / Testament SBT1007 (8/92), 1940 B Goodman; NYPO / Barbirolli / Dutton CDSJB1026, 1949 Wlach; VPO / Karajan / EMI 566388-2 (nla), 1950 Kell; Zimbler Sinfonietta / DG 477 5280GOM6 (3/53), 1954 Říha; Czech PO / Talich / Supraphon SU3835-2 (4/59), 1958 Brymer; RPO / Beecham / EMI 567596-2 (7/60; 10/88), 1959 de Peyer; LSO / Maag / Decca 466 247-2DF2 (9/60), 1961 Marcellus; Cleveland Orch / Szell / Sony SBK62424 (6/64), 1971 Brymer; ASMF / N Marriner / Philips 416 483-2PH (10/88), 1971 Leister; BPO / Karajan / EMI 764355-2 (6/72), 1990 Schmidl; VPO / Bernstein / DG 429 221-2GH (8/90), 2004 A Marriner; ASMF / N Marriner / Pentatone PTC5186 048, 2005 Martin; SCO / Janiczek / Linn CKD273, 2009 Di Càsola; Musikcollegium Winterthur / Boyd / Sony 88697 64672-2 (12/10), 1985 King; ECO / Tate / Hyperion CDA66199 (3/86), 1985 S Meyer; Staatskapelle Dresden / Vonk / EMI 555155-2 (3/92 – nla), 1992 Ottensamer; VPO / C Davis / Philips 438 868-2PH (6/94 – nla), 2002 Fröst; Amsterdam Sinfonietta / Oundjian / BIS BIS-SACD1263 (A/03), 1973 Deinzer; Collegium Aureum / Maier / EMI 747603-2 (12/87 – nla), 1985 Pay; AAM / Hogwood / L’Oiseau-Lyre 414 339-2OH (5/86), 1989 Lawson; Hanover Band / R Goodman / Nimbus NI7023 (7/90), 1998 W Meyer; Concentus Musicus Wien / Harnoncourt / Teldec 2564 69855-6 (3/01), 2001 Hoeprich; Orch of the 18th Century / Brüggen / Glossa GCD921107 (2/03), 2007 Coppola; Freiburg Baroque Orch / Von der Goltz / Harmonia Mundi HMC90 1980 (5/08), This article originally appeared in the February 2012 issue of Gramophone. Did it matter? The Flute Concerto is notable for the fact that Mozart did not like the flute as an instrument, famously stating 'whenever I have to write music for an instrument I dislike, I immediately lose interest'. Harnoncourt begins as he believes but his lyrically relaxed entry is deceptive. Piano Concerto No.27 in B flat, K595 We can’t really think of the ‘late’ style of a composer who died at 35. International licensing, Date / Artists / Record company (review date)), If you are a library, university or other organisation that would be interested in an institutional subscription to. To wit, the regular clarinet ends its compass on E below middle C; Stadler’s uniquely dropped four semitones further to C. On October 16, 1791, he premiered the work in Prague from the autograph manuscript, then went on tour, not returning to Vienna until July 1796. And no one, in this survey of selected recordings, evokes the impression better than Jack Brymer with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra attentively conducted by Thomas Beecham. Orchestra winds are a trifle distant; modern valve horns grey the texture as well. The progression from bar 331 is no different and similar examples occur in the other movements too. Dieter Klöcker’s opinion, ‘I find it deplorable that such minor matters as the appropriate type of solo instrument have become more important today than the actual work itself’, may well be typical. Valedictory or visionary? There aren’t ...... © 2021 Audiophile News & Music Review | All Rights Reserved. Compare Kell with Draper – who curiously remade only the slow movement in 1931 (Clarinet Classics) – to hear how Kell’s tactfully applied vibrato ‘vocalises’ this Adagio in a way that Draper’s non-vibrato mode does not. But what about inner anxieties, passing twinges of dis‑ease, the dives into depression? Receive a weekly collection of news, features and reviews, James McCarthy A true find. A style of performance begins to emerge. There are many superb recordings of the concerto. Significantly, Breitkopf & Härtel didn’t alter this. Copland didn’t write many songs, but this cycle is one of the finest written after the Second World War. Behold magnificence. Here at a low ebb, he doesn’t galvanise soloist or orchestra into the highest flights of innovation. Now, slip back two years to 1959, to Gervase de Peyer’s second recording. The autograph subsequently vanished; and Stadler died in 1812, leaving questions unanswered. ‘Aren’t those basset notes wonderful?’ Lorenzo Coppola seems to be asking as he produces the deepest, fruitiest sounds imaginable. Roy Goodman thinks continuo and incorporates the wrong keyboard too – a harpsichord, a tinkling irritant that neither the music nor Colin Lawson needs. VINTAGE: Who made the best vintage audio? 99% of recordings and live performances use the cadenza/eingang you describe, which is taken note for note from the slow movement of the Mozart Clarinet Quintet. Here he is again, incorrigible as ever, wholeheartedly backed by consummately gifted clarinettist Wolfgang Meyer. Stadler appears not to have objected. | Haven’t we experienced this approach before? This recording offers something more than its lyrical performances and superb recorded sound. Goodman, instinctively mercurial in jazz, is scared of Mozart. Could Mozart, who finished this concerto about eight weeks before he died, have been anything other than valedictory? Toscanini offered a post, Furtwängler thought him the only clarinettist who played from the heart. As for Mozart symphonies, this is how I would rate the best recordings: Peter Schmidl was one who remained orthodox. Warmly recommended. Beecham isn’t to blame – period practice and all it engendered was some way off – but he deserves rebuke for cutting 28 bars in the finale. Meyer's interpretation of the Clarinet Concerto has ripened since this 1992 recording, and some listeners might prefer her more playful and overtly dramatic remake with Claudio Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic. What now? We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. About Mark Allen Group Still, Pay and Lawson do try to dig deeper; but, discerning though they are, there is more to delve into. Showing 91 - 100 of 204 results Mozart: Clarinet Concerto. If you are a library, university or other organisation that would be interested in an institutional subscription to Gramophone please click here for further information. Mozart composed his Clarinet Concertofor Anton Stadler, who performed the work at the premiere in Prague on 16 October 1791. What Mozart probably wrote was a three-octave descent from top D to D below middle C. In the amended text, the last four notes in this passage are doubled back to end on D above middle C. In effect, three octaves become telescoped into two; and a vibrant plunge from soprano timbre to baritone (also known as the chalumeau register) is diluted. The MOZART CLARINET QUINTET in A minor is performed by the Berliner Solisten quartet with Karl Leister playing the Clarinet. But opting out of some of these cookies may have an effect on your browsing experience. Sony: 88697646722. In 1801 three companies, André, Sieber and Breitkopf & Härtel, published editions of the work with the solo part in an identical conversion for the regular instrument. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. Note the conductor here, the third illustrious name to be mentioned; and in the first 32 years of the concerto’s recorded history, three more made their bow – Herbert von Karajan, Václav Talich and George Szell. PARASOUND NOT ON EBAY @ 18/02/21 VIA THE AUDIO MISER, QUAD: Quad 57 stacked v Wilson watt puppy 6/7. The work is considered Mozart’s finest wind concerto, and I’ll take it further and declare it the best wind concerto in the entire world of classical music. English (US) Español; Français (France) 中文(简体) Piano Concerto No. Unexpectedly, Frans Brüggen is below form, not the musician who had recorded Mozart and Haydn symphonies that were products of a sharply erudite mind. The best recordings of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto. Coppola doesn’t probe the spirit, coasting through the first and last movements; and though soulful in the Adagio, his pacing is inert, clogging flow. Is there a choice? Also on this recording are the Bassoon Concerto, K191, and Clarinet Concerto, K622. It’s time for a wake-up call from the newest kid on the block, Fabio Di Càsola, after Douglas Boyd conducts a pulsating orchestral exposition, rhythm effervescently alive, paragraphs shaped through hairpin-like increases and decreases in intensity, the big picture always kept firmly in mind. Get acquainted with our picks for the 20 essential Mozart recordings. Brymer’s command is absolute, the mood calmingly resigned if rather imperturbable in his unruffled stream of notes. Brymer’s tribute to his colleague says it all: ‘His freedom of expression, perfect intonation and control, easy rubato and use of a vocalised vibrato much in the [Leon] Goossens manner, marked him out as something new in the instrumental world.’ Vibrato in a woodwind instrument was indeed new to many in the first half of the 20th century; and these two musicians split opinion at the time. RADFORD: Quad II vs Leak 20 vs Radford STA 25 vintage equipment, PERCY GRAINGER: The ninth best composer ever. It may be a particular sound. No matter which instrument or edition you utilize, playing the Mozart Clarinet Concerto is a great musical experience. Such evidence absorbed into the gathering desire for historical veracity after the Second World War saw Stadler’s prototype reproduced (to be named the ‘basset clarinet’ by Jiří Kratochvíl) and the solo part conjecturally reconstructed by Franz Giegling, both ‘enabling Mozart’s melodic contours to be realised in what approaches their original form’ (Colin Lawson). Piano Concerto No. Beethoven ‘Emperor’ Concerto. Gramophone is brought to you by Mark Allen Group A 21st-century artist stays in the present but stretches the envelope. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. You couldn’t apply such strictures to Robert Marcellus who, with Szell as a close ally, is at his finest in the Adagio, capturing its inherent intensity at a tempo that doesn’t drag. Is there a choice? Rumblings about the true text hung around for the next 150 years or so – probably because Mozart had also showcased Stadler in a 199-bar sketch for basset-horn, K621b, that thematically anticipates the first movement of the Clarinet Concerto, and in the clarinet obbligato for the aria ‘Parto, parto’ from La clemenza di Tito which exploited the basset’s range. Register now to continue reading Thank you for visiting Gramophone and making use of our archive of more than 50,000 expert reviews, features, awards and blog articles. SANSUI: The highly unusual (for that era) S-X1050 receiver. No chance. An interlude of bittersweet nostalgia, a look back with the odd angry flare; yet in the soul and sinew of Wolfgang Meyer and Nikolaus Harnoncourt a look forward too, vigorous, even manic in the extrovert optimism of the outer movements. You won't be disappointed with this CD, if it's still available. With hindsight, Kell’s 1950 remake cut a new pattern; de Peyer refined it to its zenith. In 1973 Hans Deinzer made the first recording on a period basset copied for him in boxwood by Rudolf Tutz of Innsbruck. The recording of the Clarinet Concerto that Robert Newman mentions is on "Mozart Wind Concertos" Berlin Philharmonic/ HVK : EMI Studio. These cookies do not store any personal information. Could Mozart, who finished this concerto about eight weeks before he died, have been anything other than valedictory? But deep notes do not a deep interpretation make. The text ritually intoned? Valedictory or visionary? Jeffrey Tate unveils a tinge of melancholy in the orchestral exposition of the first movement; King responds to the mood but takes it further. Maybe he had paraphrased Charles Hallé who, after a Manchester performance in 1855, wrote: ‘The composition, although by Mozart, is such a grandfatherly production and so lengthy that the finale had to be left out, not to try the patience of the public beyond endurance.’. 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