Klarinet Archive - Posting 000045.txt from 2003/01

From: "fred.sheim" <fred.sheim@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Who wrote this concero?
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 17:44:32 -0500

Yes! I have that CD- and the exact notes that Mr. Lawson plays as Hook,=20
Mr. Brunner plays as Lefevre. And I have a printed copy of those notes=20
attributed to Hook. So it would seem that Mr. Lawson is correct, backed up=
=20
by Mr. Voxman. But who will tell Mr. Brunner this?

The issue remains unresolved!

Fred

At 04:47 PM 1/3/03, you wrote:
>It may be of help to know that Colin Lawson
>recorded the Clarinet Concerto (1812)
>by James Hook for Hyperion in 1996 (CDA 66896)
>MB
>
>Fred Sheim wrote on January 03, 2003 5:09 PM
>Subject: [kl] Who wrote this concero?
>
>
>I have just received a reply from the Tudor record company about the
>Lefevre (Hook?) Concerto:
>
>Dear Sir
>We informed Eduard Brunner about your conflict and he confirmed us that the
>concerto is really a Lef=E8vre work.
>Best regards Wladek Glowacz
>
>I emailed H. Voxman, who attributed this work to Hook, but did not receive
>a reply. Can anyone shed some additional light on this matter? Why would
>Mr. Voxman believe this was a work of Hook, and why would it be published
>as such, and RECORDED as such?
>
>Fred
>
>
>
>
>I have just received a wonderful CD with Eduard Brunner as soloist playing
>three of J. X. Lefevre's clarinet concertos, nos. 3, 4, and 6. I have the
>sheet music for the concerto #6, as well as an old audio tape of it that
>was played decades ago on WQXR's "Music from Germany" program. I was aware
>of the existence of the concerto #4, because I saw it (and #6) in the score
>published by Heugel. So I was eager to hear the Lefevre clarinet concerto
>#3, since I was totally unaware of it. As I listened to the CD, the
>concerto #3 sounded strangely familiar, but I couldn't really remember
>how. I KNEW I played this work, but don't own the sheets for Lefevre's
>#3. Well, it took this aging brain a full 24 hours to realize that the
>"concerto #3 by LEFEVRE" on this CD is published by "English Woodwind
>Edition (Nova music, ed. H. Voxman) as JAMES HOOK'S CONCERTO IN Eb!!! So
>could someone set me straight on this- Is this work by Lefevre or
>Hook? And what could cause such a monumental mixup?
>
>LINER NOTES FOR THE 'LEFEVRE' CONCERTO #3
>
>Possibly written just before 1800, the 3rd Concerto in E-flat allows the
>soloist little respite. In the first movement he goes from the lowest to
>the highest registers. The Adagio, only 56 bars long, features some of the
>most sublime melodies invented by a Swiss classical composer. Brilliant
>runs in the Rondo-Finale give way to an episode in minor key. In its
>intervals and rhythm, the main theme recalls Papageno's aria "Der
>Vogelfanger bin ich ja" from Mozart's "Magic Flute".
>
>
>PREFACE (TO THE 'HOOK' Eb CONCERTO)
>
><snip>
>
>Among his numerous instrumental compositions are overtures, concertos,
>sonatas, and works for small ensembles. For the flute he composed a set of
>Six Trios, op. 83 and Three Trios for Two Concert Flutes and the Patent
>Voice Flute, op. 133, as well as some duets.
>The title page of the manuscript score of the clarinet concerto reads Full
>score / Concerto for the Clarinet /by/James Hook/Autograph In S.,
>dated/August 4:1812. The heading of the first page of the actual score
>reads Concerto, Clarinetto Obligato, August 4th, 1812. We are indebted to
>the Nanki Music Library of Tokyo for furnishing the microfilm on which this
>edition is based. The concerto is in the W.H. Cummings Collection of that
>library, whose holdings have since been acquired by the Tokyo College of
>Music and a private collector
>.
>H. Voxman
>R.P. Block
>Iowa City, Iowa
>December, 1983
>
>Fred