Klarinet Archive - Posting 000675.txt from 2000/10

From: Neil Leupold <leupold_1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] And while we are at it ...
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 12:41:50 -0400

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

> Do we do things in a stylistically viable manner? And when we don't
> (or when our departure from that style becomes massively abusive), our
> performances are not going to be tolerated for very long, and it will
> be said of us that we have no business doing that thing.

and also

> We have a responsibility to play a work in a way that is consistent
> with what the composer would have expected.

Did somebody, at some point, issue Dick Stoltzman a non-expiring "get out
of jail free" card? Few would say that he takes a purist approach to per-
formance practice in his various renditions of the Mozart clarinet concerto
alone, not to mention the *bassoon* concerto. I believe -- and I think
I'm on solid ground here -- that Stoltzman's recordings have been "toler-
ated"...heck: admired, worshipped, and canonized by some...and will con-
tinue to receive such positive attention for many decades to come. Is
it because his interpretations are "stylistically viable" that he has
achieved so much success, despite his questionable application of per-
formance practice? There are incredibly imaginative and musical things
he does...that Mozart would never have "expected"!

-- Neil

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