Klarinet Archive - Posting 000187.txt from 1997/06

From: Mark Charette <charette@-----.com>
Subj: Accuracy and ornamentation
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 12:10:40 -0400

Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu wrote:
> Kalmus publishes nothing. They simply find editions whose copyrite
> has expired and reprint them unaltered under a new publisher's name.
> Now in many cases, this is perfectly satisfactory. In other cases,
> (the Beethoven triple concerto, for example), what you get is
> somewhat unusable.

Which brings me to a question IRT your statements earlier, Dan.

I recently had the pleasure of going through a few
editions of the Mozart Concerto #23 (my clarinet playing
son is a piano minor, and learning & playing #23 is summer
homework for his piano). Each edition shows somewhat different
ornamentation, vastly different written cadenzas, and other
differences. We did not find any Urtext edition, and even if
we did, we wouldn't have known what was left out due to
the "common performance practices" of the era.

Listening to different recorded versions of the #23, we hear
each performer's "interpretation", but I have no real frame
of reference yet to make any judgement as to whether or not
the interpretation is accurate. What would be a good starting place
to obtain a frame of reference? Christopher Hogswood & the Academy
of Ancient Music? Emmanuel Ax? I feel as if someones cast me adrift
on an ocean, it's a cloudy day, and I have no clock.
--
Mark Charette "How can you be in two places at once
charette@-----.com when you're not anywhere at all?"
http://sneezy.mika.com/clarinet - Firesign Theater