Klarinet Archive - Posting 000743.txt from 2002/04

From: "Paolo Leva" <paolo.leva@-----.se>
Subj: Re: [kl] Tony Pay, Articulation and K. 622
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 13:47:51 -0400

(snip)
> Exactly not, I'd say. The point is, you *don't* need a source. (I'm
> assuming here that by 'a different way of phrasing' you mean 'a
> different articulation'. If not, and you *are* talking about phrasing,
> then read my article.)

yes, of course, i meant articulation (blushing). The whole idea came from
reading your article, which I find very inspiring.

> You can 'try out', as you put it, anything, including what's in the
> other editions. It's a question of whether you think the result of your
> tryout makes the piece 'live better as a piece of Mozart' than what
> happens when you do exactly the articulations that appear in the
> Baerenreiter; and to make that judgement you obviously need a way of
> assessing it that's independent of the 'authority' of the other
> editions. I described some of the ways in which you may assess it in my
> post.
> Of course, the problem only arises if you think that the Baerenreiter is
> 'underspecified' with regard to articulations.
>

No I don't. I am still a student and have not enough experience to judge any
edition as "wrong" in any sense. It's still a long way before I can dream of
performing this pieces, but I find this discussions useful to build a
cultural background against which to choose my editions, my articulations
and my interpretations later on.
I also believe that it is very dangerous to let the technical difficulties
to guide your articulation in earlier stage, the risk is that even after
overcoming these difficulties you stick to that articulation because it is
just there, in your fingers. Much better to play much slower and with the
proper articulation. But on the other hand if you play fragmentary and at a
slower tempo it gets very difficult to get an overall sense of the
composition to make the "right" choices regarding balance and
articulation... I find this a difficult dilemma, with no obvious solution.

> > I also wonder whether these arguments apply to Weber as well, being
> > him both a classicist and a preromantic. I have both the Breitkopf &
> > Hartel and the Peters edition of the first concert and they differ
> > quite a lot, not only in slurs but even in notes, ornamentation and so
> > on. Being the Breitkopf & Hartel much more edited, and much similar,
> > for instance, to what Leister plays.
>
> Discussion of all that is in the Klarinet archives. You go to:
>
> http://www.woodwind.org/Databases/LogsIndex/index.html
>
> and enter your search words.

Thanks a lot, I'll do some searching. It's great to get so much help but so
highly qualified people.

-paolo

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