Klarinet Archive - Posting 000170.txt from 1999/11

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] Weber
Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 02:29:10 -0500

On Fri, 5 Nov 1999 15:13:27 +0100, rstein@-----.nl said:

> And then I have another question. Yesterday morning the Concertino
> opus 26 wsa on the radio, played by Anthony Pay,

Antony Pay.

> also on this list. He played together with The Orchestra of the Age of
> Enlight[en]ment, but I could not hear who had been the conductor. Now
> some questions to Tony remain:
>
> The first of course is, who was the conductor. I think it was Frans
> Bruggen, but I am not sure.

It was me.

> Then I think the tempi in some parts are rather fast. Of course it can
> be interpreted as a show-off piece, but even a mediocre amateur like
> me can play it. Now of course I know Weber wrote it in three days, but
> what should be the right tempi?

No answer to this one. Sorry you didn't like it.

The piece is more about a matador than a butterfly collector. But if I
communicated the extra level that I was a show-off, showing off about
how well I could do 'matador', then I failed.

Of course, to a professional, fast doesn't mean show-off, necessarily.
It means, fast.

> Last, and I think the most important question, and I would like to
> hear the opinion also of others on this list about it:
>
> After the "con fuoco" that begins in measure 96, in my Br&H edition in
> measure 125 a very beautifull "piu lento" follows, till ms 147, where
> the meter changes to 6/8. To me this is the heart of the piece, but it
> is not in the "Soloist Folio" (Rubank), and I often miss it.

I'd buy yourself a proper edition, then.

> Why has this part been dismissed?

God knows. Money?

> Has that to do with the intrpretation as a show-off piece for virtuoso
> players?

What interpretation do you mean?

In the original, the passage accompanied by divisi violas, then violins
and violas, and then violas again, has no piu' lento marking.

That isn't a question of opinion.

But since you ask for an opinion, it's often played too slow. It's even
more beautiful when it flows.

Tony
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