Klarinet Archive - Posting 000161.txt from 1999/05

From: "Craig Hill / Karen Hutchinson" <hutchill@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Pamela Weston's Mozart
Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 01:23:43 -0400

The most positive thing to say would be that at least it it's good example
of what NOT to do! (on the clarinet anyway.) Look at it in the shop by all
means, but don't buy it! It is a pity that potentially the most interesting
information - details of the string parts - are not presented in this
edition which is with a piano reduction only.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Pay <Tony@-----.uk>
Date: Friday, 7 May 1999 13:40
Subject: [kl] Pamela Weston's Mozart

>A lot of it is pretty much unplayable on the period clarinet, and I
>think it's a bit of a disaster all round that it's been published in
>this way, as a *version* of the clarinet concerto, as opposed to being
>published as an interesting arrangement of it. (You might pick up some
>ideas about contemporary embellishments, it's true, but that's all.)
>
>It should make lessons 'interesting', if students turn up with it.
>
>The point for me is that the first part of the first edition is so close
>to the Winterthur fragment that such a fortepiano arrangement doesn't
>really cast doubt on the veracity of the first edition, any more than
>does the version for viola, whereas Pamela seems to think the contrary;
>and the almost routine filling out of long notes and constant trills and
>embellishments in the arrangement, which she incorporates wholesale,
>might have been necessary on the fortepiano, but aren't necessary, or
>indeed idiomatic, on the clarinet.
>
>Anyhow, the purpose of embellishment, as you've said, isn't to *start*
>with something different from what the composer wrote -- and for me it's
>quite clearly that, certainly without any doubt at all in the first part
>of the first movement.
>
>You have to see it, really, diminished 7ths, chromatics and quintuplets
>and all.
>
>But of course, you might have a different opinion of it.
>
>Tony
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