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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000093.txt from 2006/11
From: "HAROLD" <harold@-----.br>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Re: doublereed Digest 19 Nov 2006 10:01:02 -0000 Issue 1294
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 17:03:32 -0500
Dear (Second)Cherished List:
Sorry to violate the Blue Sunday law-- when both Lists close for business--,
but I played Handel's lovely Oratorio "The Choice of Hercules " last evening
and am itching to write about it.
It was the first --and hopefully not the last--time I have ever performed
this work and as I did I kept on wondering to myself why "The Messiah" by
the same great composer is always played when so many great Handelian works
remain in the archives awaiting new audiences?
I also am wondering about the Kalmus editions of this work.
I wonder because one evening I just happened to forget my first oboe
part at home and had to read off the vocal score at rehearsal,as the
conductor needed his full orchestra score.There were numerous discrepancies
between the score and individual parts and in contrast to the original
score,,the oboes do not always play in unison. Could someone at Kalmus and
other publishers have copied the parts incorrectly?In fact after hearing me
play from the vocal score,the conductor insisted at the dress rehearsal that
I put in some notes which were not in the original first oboe part but were
in the vocal score.
There is also the no. 17 Chorus "Virtue will place thee in the blest
abode" which must be among the best works ever written for two
oboes,orchestra and chorus.It resembles a bit the composer's Gminor concerto
and oh,how I would love to play it again.
In fact,as I played the vocal parts at rehearsal--in the absence of the
soloists--I had more clues to where Handel "borrowed" his lines for the
beautiful oboe concerti: from own his vocal writing.Many of the arias would
easily make solo arias for oboes.
Any feedback on this Handelian theme would be appreciated.
To those of you playing the Messiah again this year,try reading though the
vocal score on the oboe ...or bassoon?
Best wishes,
Harold Emert
Rio de Janeiro-Brazil
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