Klarinet Archive - Posting 001232.txt from 2000/05

From: Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] You'll be able to say "I knew about that!!"
Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 17:37:03 -0400

Some questions below for David. Your note was very helpful, but like
any helpful note, it raised a few areas of your answers that need a
little clarification:

David Glenn wrote:
>
>
> Dan,
> Alan's edition is published by Schott No. 11149 Copyright 1974. In
> addition to the Schott and Baerenreiter editions, there is also an edtion > by Universal No. UE 19 086 copyright 1997 editied by Pamela Weston. It's > very different, being based on the arrangement for piano and strings by
> CFG Schwenke (contemp. of Mozart). I think we discussed it a year or so
> ago...

Do I interpret your comments about the Weston edition to mean that it is
playable only on a basset clarinet? I remember the discussion of a year
or so ago, but I got the impression that what Pamela had prepared was
simply a different version of K. 622 for traditional clarinet. Did I
misunderstand that?
>
> When I was preparing the piece for performance a while back, I also
> found the contemp. arrangement for viola (publ. by Andre) to be very > interesting. Further info thru Pamela L. Poulin and Robert Adelson (whom
> I corresponded with and who was very knowledgable and helpful!

Can you expand on this? Is the contemporary arrangement for viola
useful if performing K. 622 on a basset clarinet? If so, how? Also,
did Pamela and Robert give you suggestions about basset clarinet
performance or have either of them prepared such an edition?

>
> As to the quintet, I have played it on the basset but with out much
> help. Robert Levin arranged a Bb fragment for (Bb) basset clarinet and
> string quartet (which I have also played in Oxford and Freiburg). It's
> published by Nagels in Kassel. In the edtion, Mr. Levin announces his
> intention to publish an article in the Mozart-Jahrbuch of 1969.

I know this work intimately. It has nothing to do with my question. I
was speaking of K. 581, the A major clarinet quintet. And Levin's
article in the Jahrbuch was my introduction to his superb scholarship.
We became and have remained friends. If I remember the quintet
correctly, it never goes below written low D.

Can I interpret your answer to say that you do not know of a published
version of K. 581 with part for basset clarinet??

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