Klarinet Archive - Posting 000084.txt from 1997/02

From: "David C. Blumberg" <reedman@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: Greg Baker asks about Mozart on the B-flat clarinet
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 23:51:16 -0500

The string part stayed the same MMO. The clarinet part was transposed. I
have it somewhere.

At 07:03 AM 2/3/97 EST, Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu wrote:
>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.
>
>
>====================================
>Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
>(leeson@-----.edu)
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>
>
David C. Blumberg
reedman@-----.com
Principal Clarinet Riverside Symphonia
Adjunct Woodwind Instructor Univ. of Penn,. Bryn Mawr College