Klarinet Archive - Posting 000220.txt from 1996/02

From: Everett J Austin <BrendaA624@-----.COM>
Subj: how to play mozart kegelstatt?
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 02:58:27 -0500

I sent a querythe other day about the first movement of the Mozart Kegelstatt
Trio KV 498, but evidently it did not get through, so I am asking briefly for
anyone, especially Mozart scholars, to clarify this point:

The turns in the first movement are written as sixty-fourth notes in 6/8
time in the editions I have seen, giving them the value of a sixteenth note,
or half a beat counting in six. I was taught to play them strictly in time
as written. Nevertheless, in a number of extant recordings I hear
something else, either an inconsistency throughout or a relaxed speed
equivalent to thirty-second notes, robbing the extra time from the preceding
note. Of note, at least two performers play them exactly as written :
Reginald Kell in 1947 and Sabine Meyer in 1988! Are the others stylish,
careless, lazy or adhering to a different text (or are they "improvising"?!)

Any comments would be much appreciated.

Everett Austin
Fairfax, California