Klarinet Archive - Posting 000271.txt from 1996/10

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Gran Partitta
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 22:29:34 -0400

David Hattner's comments about the Moyse recording of K. 361 state that
the performers do not use the articulations of the autograph. It is
not surprising. They used the standard edition available to them at
that time, the only edition by the way. It was flawed something
terrible, but they had no alternative.

Moyse was a wonderful musician, but not a classicist. His specialty
was Baroque. But he loved the music and was a most sensitive
musician in any case.

The recording was a demonstration of great players at their best.
I worked with Genovase when he was 1st oboe at the Met and he was
always a great player.

All recordings of the Gran Partitta prior to 1979 used the traditional
and very incorrect edition published by Broude, B&H, Kalmus, Musica
Rara, etc. They were all the same and all with significant problems
far beyond those of articulations. There were about 800 dynamics
either incorrectly placed or else of incorrect intensity, 60 wrong notes,
about a dozen changes of rhythm, and countless phrase shapes.

Today, it is a seriously different piece and hardly anyone uses the
old edition any longer.

I recorded the work with Dave Bourque playing 1st basset horn along
with a number of the members of the Toronto symphony and it was
a joyous occasion.

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Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
(leeson@-----.edu)
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