Klarinet Archive - Posting 001292.txt from 2000/05

From: "Doug Sears" <dsears@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] You'll be able to say "I knew about that!!"
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 16:27:02 -0400

Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net> wrote:

>Folks, I've got a novel going and the planning process is a third
>through. It's a fiction novel that has a great deal to do with clarinet

I can't wait to read it!

>Now, as a secondary question but which also interests me, are there any
>editions of the clarinet quintet, K. 581 that print a basset clarinet
>version?

The liner notes for the David Shifrin CD, Delos D/CD 3020, state that "several
scholars have ... published careful, imaginative reconstructions of the original
clarinet parts for both the quintet and concerto." My guess is that
"reconstructions" doesn't refer to a complete edition of the work, though, if
that's what Dan was asking about. Mr. Shifrin based his performance on
alterations suggested by George Dazely, The Music Review vol. 9, p. 166ff
(1948), and that article only lists the spots in the quintet where he thought it
had been de-bassetized. Colin Lawson's book "Mozart: Clarinet Concerto" has a
couple of pages on K. 581 with references to three more articles with
suggestions for reconstruction. I haven't looked at those articles. I'm sure Dan
knows all this, but I thought others might be interested in reading up on the
background.

--Doug

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