Klarinet Archive - Posting 000658.txt from 2000/10

From: ShawThings@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] And while we are at it ...
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 09:24:18 -0400

Dear Dan & all,
I've not heard the Joaquin recording, so I don't know the context of the high
G's in K622, but perhaps they could be considered in the context of (the
missing) improvisation which you complained about in your previous post.
I'm sure they wouldn't be in the slow movt. (BTW, if you regard the slow
movt. as presenting the most opportunities for improvisation, [do you -your
message seems to imply that?] is it because of its tempo, harmonic
structure, or both, or because of historical precedent). Do you think that
changes of registration (usuall dangerous, IMO), could be regarded as a tame
variant of improvisation?
Best wishes,
Tim Shaw.
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In a message dated 12/10/00 10:22:30 PM AUS Eastern Standard Time,
leeson0@-----.net writes:
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Now I'd like to open the matter of the other end other clarinet's range.
In Joaquin's recording I notice that he uses an edition that allows him
to go up to a high G on at least two occasions.

And I would like to put forward the suggestion that there is no
precedent for this note anywhere in Mozart's writings for clarinets.
For an entirely different study, I examined the manuscripts of every
single thing that Mozart ever wrote for clarinet (where those
manuscripts existed, of course) and basset horn, and NEVER does he go
beyond either a high C# or high D. (I don't have my data in front of me
to be certain which note it is.) And he uses that otherwise highest
note only once or twice.

So I ask the question: what is the defense for the use of high G in K.
622? In the absence of any autograph material in which that note is
found, I suggest that we have no business playing that note, and its
presence in any performance of K. 622 is contraindicated. The
probability is very much on my side that Mozart never wrote it!
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** Dan Leeson **
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