Klarinet Archive - Posting 000689.txt from 2000/10

From: Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] And while we are at it ...
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 14:57:40 -0400

Neil, that you do not care for Stolzman or think that what he does is
not appropriate does not constitute a universal truth. It seems to me
that whenever you want to disagree with some point, you bring up things
that you like or dislike as if doing so is an argument for your point or
against the point of the person you are addressing.

Discounting his recording of the bassoon concerto, can you be specific
about what he does in the clarinet concerto (which is what you
mentioned) that are OBJECTIVELY non Mozartean?

Neil Leupold wrote:
>
> --- 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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