Klarinet Archive - Posting 000683.txt from 2000/06

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Mozart Concerto - Quintet?
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 15:43:01 -0400

At 10:12 AM 6/18/2000 +0930, John W. Sheridan wrote:
>I am considering performing the Mozart clarinet concerto in next year's
Eisteddfod here in Alice Springs and as a full orchestra is neither
available, much less practical would like to know if any arrangements for a
string quartet are available - 2 violins, viola, cello/bass.
>I currently have an arrangement for clarinet & piano - Boosey & Hawkes
1946 copyright and comparing what is written to a CD I have with Joze
Ostrac playing the clarinet have noticed some differences in phrasing,
etc, especially in the Rondo mvt - measure 311 the written begins the
16th's beginning with A 2nd space on staff while the performer plays the
passage an octave lower. I realize the lower is considerably easier to
manage and wonder if this is done typically by other performers?
>
I think I know the part you mean even though it came out to measure 331 in
my quick count. A descending pasage of a, c, g, c, f, c, e, c, c (octave
down), c, g, c, etc. It seems to me most clarinet concertos have, at some
point, a rapid passage in the low chalumeau register, apparently to show
off the sound of that range and the facility of rapid passagework there.
This one, I'll wager, Mozart wrote in order to take full advantage of the
basset range, since that bottom C would be available with the passage taken
down an octave from what is written in both your and my copies of the part.
Moving it into the upper chalumeau and across the break not only
complicates the fingering but, IMHO, destroys the purpose of the phrase.
Playing it in the lower octave as a, c, g, c, f, c, e, c, f, c, g, etc.,
while perhaps not note-correct to the original manuscript, stikes me as
more true to the INTENT of the passage. Besides, it is MUCH CHEAPER than
buying a basset clarinet!

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