Klarinet Archive - Posting 000056.txt from 1997/02

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.EDU>
Subj: Greg Baker asks about Mozart on the B-flat clarinet
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 14:19:32 -0500

Greg asked if any recordings had ever been made of the Mozart
repertoire on the B-flat clarinet, and I presume that he means
the solo music written for A clarinet in the first place.

The answer is yes and no.

No in that no one, as far as I know has ever recorded either the
concerto or the quintet on anything other than an A clarinet.

Yes in that music-minus-one did release a recording in the 50s
of the string quartet accompaniment of K. 581 pitched in a key
that would allow a clarinetist at home to play it on a B-flat
instrument.

Whether this was done electronically or if the strings really read
from transposed parts is not known to me.

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