Klarinet Archive - Posting 000069.txt from 1998/06

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Weber Second Clarinet Concerto
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 12:04:49 -0400

Yes - but it is not just a "Romantic virtuoso showpiece" - it is a
concerto by Weber. Putting music in pigeon holes and then assuming it has
the concomitant stereotypical characteristics seems to me to be following
the wrong path, barking up the wrong tree, etc., etc.
We had a controversy on this list just after I first joined about the
tempo
for the final polonaise movement of this concerto, and quite a few people
agreed that it was often played inappropriately fast.
ROger Shilcock

On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, GTGallant wrote:

> Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 11:10:30 EDT
> From: GTGallant <GTGallant@-----.com>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Weber Second Clarinet Concerto
>
> I've heard many Weber 2nd concerto recordings and tempos vary from performer
> to performer. Most take the 1st mvt. between quarter note = 112-120 and the
> last movement around 112. I have come to the conslusion that anyone who takes
> tempos as slow as 108 for the first and 100 for the last movement, is not very
> good - at least from the recordings I've experienced. I highly doubt Weber
> marked those slow tempos and probably left it up to Baerman to play at
> whatever speed he wanted. A good tempo for the 1st mvt. is 120-126 and the
> last is good between 112-120. Some players may disagree with those tempos but
> the concerto IS a Romantic virtuoso showpiece! Charles Neidich has a great
> recording of Webers concertos and plays them very light and fast with
> improvised cadenzas.
>
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