Klarinet Archive - Posting 001080.txt from 1999/02

From: "Steven J Goldman, MD" <sjgoldman@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Sabine Meyer's Stamitz
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 07:36:52 -0500

One can perform compositions from another era in two ways. One using the
knowledge we have of what was considered proper performance practice at the
time of composition (a HIP performance), the other using modern performance
practice. Both methods can result in musical performances (I prefer HIP but
that's a personal preference), or either can result in bad music if poorly
done. The Meyer performance is a hybrid, with a little of each type. IMHO
the result in this case is a very musical performance, although it may not
satisfy either purists or HIP haters. My feeling is that one can have a
musical performance without following all the HIP rules, although one must
understand that the result, while musical, may not conform to the composers
intentions. Others on the list have strongly disagreed with this. It really
is a matter of personal taste. Music is not a science with absolute rules,
even though we sometimes try to claim so.

Steve Goldman
Glenview, IL

-----Original Message-----
From: Craig Hill / Karen Hutchinson [mailto:hutchill@-----.net]
Subject: Re: [kl] Sabine Meyer's Stamitz

Now if not *HIP* ( an Historically Informed Performance) - it is surely
intended to be a musical performance!
So, is the articulation musical? What purposes does it seem to serve?

Since the recording " stands on its own merits" - what merits might those
be? Answer that and you have defined the *modern* performance practice of
*our era* (or is that really a decade ago? or maybe two.. ;-) )

Craig

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