Klarinet Archive - Posting 000681.txt from 2002/04

From: "Tim Roberts" <timr@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Mozart Concerto Issues
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 13:38:17 -0400

I purchased the Music Minus One package for the Mozart K.622 concerto last
week. To my surprise, I find that the articulation markings printed in the MMO
music are dramatically different from what I hear in my favorite recording of
the piece, the 1984 performance by Antony Pay with the Academy of Ancient Music
under Christopher Hogwood. (Caution: I have not conducted a scholarly analysis
of K.622 recordings, but when I play them, Tony's is the one I want to listen
to again. Hmmm, that sounds bit like "I don't know art, but I know what I
like", doesn't it?)

I had expected minor differences here and there, but I'm seeing entire runs
that are marked slurred where I hear staccato, and vice versa. This,
naturally, makes it difficult for a tyro to know where to go next.

My temptation is to assume that the MMO score is derived from some older and
overzealous editing, whereas Tony's performance was the product of more
scholarly research on the piece. Is that being na‹ve? Is there really that
much freedom to interpret, or can it really be said that one is wrong and one
is right?

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- Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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