Klarinet Archive - Posting 000181.txt from 1999/04

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] Harpsichord in k.622?
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1999 04:41:06 -0400

> From: MX%"klarinet@-----.36
> Subj: [kl] Harpsichord in k.622?

>
> I've been listening to Colin Lawson's recording of k.622 with Roy Goodman
> and the Hanover Band, and I'm pretty sure that there is a harpsichord
> playing little bits here and there. I have not heared this in any modern
> insturment recordings, and there is no harspichord in the Dover score I
> have (but it also calls for a clarinet in A, so that's not saying much).
> Anybody have any info/comments on this?
>
> -yg

I have no idea what Lawson has in mind if, as you say, he has
a harpsichord playing fill-in-the-gaps. While that might have
been appropriate for music 50 years earlier, I don't know of
a tradition to have harpsichord fill-ins for solo non-piano
instrumental literature of this period. Certainly no such
plan exists for the bassoon concerto, the horn concerti, the
flute concerti, the oboe concerto (for which no autograph exists
so I'm not sure on this one), the violin concerti, the concerti
for multiple instruments such as the violin/viola concertante,
etc. He might have some reason for doing it that I don't know
about. Is there something in the record jacket notes that
explains his action?

If not, I can only conclude that he got bad advice.

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