Klarinet Archive - Posting 000186.txt from 2000/06

From: alevin@-----. Levin)
Subj: Re: [kl] Mozart K581a
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 17:31:08 -0400

Dan:

That is the fragment I discussed with Bob Levin at Fontainebleau back in
'68. I can't remember, though if he did a "completion" of the fragment or
was then just planning it. As I recall, it requires an extended range
instrument.

Allen

At 09:03 AM 6/1/00 -0700, you wrote:
>Tony, I sent a note too, but mine is a little different than yours.
>While I said that this is the music of K. 581a, it is not K. 581a! That
>K listing is reserved for a fragmentary clarinet quintet movement (from
>something) but is absoutely incomplete and unplayable. What was on
>sneezy was someone's completion of this quintet, and that is NOT K.
>581a. It is not that I am making a value judgement on the arrangement,
>only a statement that it is NOT what Mozart sketched out. It may be a
>very good completion though.
>
>Tony Pay wrote:
>>
>> On 1 Jun 2000 14:20:16 -0000, charette@-----.org said:
>>
>> > Would someone who has references for chacking please take a look at
>> > the parts and see if it really is K581a? I don't want to put it up in
>> > the Sneezy music section as something it isn't.
>>
>> Yup, looks like it. In fact, this is the music of the usually omitted
>> tenor aria from 'Cosi' that Dan mentioned, and it's usually omitted
>> because tenors find it too high and demanding.
>>
>> When we did Cosi at Glyndebourne in 1991 (I think), Kurt Streit sang it
>> wonderfully, hanging off a gantry, as well -- it was set on a boat!-)
>>
>> Tony
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