Klarinet Archive - Posting 000642.txt from 2002/09

From: "Joseph Wakeling" <joseph.wakeling@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Beethoven "clarinet" concerto
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 06:43:56 -0400

> Does the fact that the Beethoven violin concerto,
> now re-arranged for clarinet, constitute a violation
> of what we have been discussing - (see Tony Pay`s
> account of the history of the Schumann Romances).
> It (Beethoven) <is> a complete, and deliberate, and
> separately structured "re-composition" is it not?
> Not mearly a player`s own decision to change
> instruments for the sake of facilitation.

Just to note, Mikhail Pletnev and Michael Collins don't claim it is anything
other than this - their attitude is very much, "We thought it would be
interesting, it works musically." They don't attempt to justify their
rearrangement on anything other than these grounds! ;-)

-- Joe

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