Klarinet Archive - Posting 000080.txt from 2001/12

From: Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Beethoven 2, embellish Larghetto?
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 17:05:53 -0500

But why should this improvisation surprise you in the slightest? For
the last 10 years on on this list, I have consistently said that the
performance practice up to roughly 1820 (no one hung out a sign to stop
doing it on a specific day), was to encourage performer improvisation
under a variety of reasonably well-defined conditions. Beethoven fell
into that period, so did Schubert, and certainly so did Mozart.

To this day I will ask a conductor if he or she would object to me
improvising in performances of the Mozart Requiem, the Gran Partitta,
etc. Some object. Others don't.

Zinman is right on the money and he is lucky to have a performer who can
do it effectively.

Dan Leeson

LoriLovato@-----.com wrote:
>
> Greetings List,
> Was just listening to a new release of Beethoven's
> 2nd Sym. (David Zinmann conducting) and to my
> complete surprise, the clarinetist lightly embellished
> the melody in the Larghetto! WOW! A local conductor
> has asked if I would do the same on an upcoming
> concert in Santa Fe. I'm excited to try something
> new but don't want to over do it!
> Apparently we will be playing from a brand new
> set of Urtext that has just been published by
> Barenreiter & edited by Jonathan Del Mar. Anyone
> know any details?
> WOW, embellished Beethoven, I'm still in SHOCK!
> Thanks!
> Lori Lovato
> 2nd/Eb NMSO, SFS, www.3-2jazz.org
>
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