Klarinet Archive - Posting 000816.txt from 2003/05
From: "Matthew Lloyd" <Matthew@-----.uk>
Subj: RE: [kl] Gran Partitta recording
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 08:54:34 -0400
Dan,
Perhaps I should have been less cryptic.
In an ideal world of course everyone would use the best text. There can
be no argument in favour of using an old one with errors in it when
there is a new one that is correct. I assume that no-one would challenge
that.
However with Furtwangler you don't have that easy choice because he was
inconsiderate enough to die in, I believe from the top of my head, 1954.
If you want to hear him, it is the old text or nothing.
My point was, and could have been made a lot better, is that there is
more to a performance than just the correct text, however important that
is. The insights that a really great musician will bring to a piece are
a greater benefit than the wrong notes is a loss. So, net (as it were)
Furtwangler, for me, will knock into touch most modern recordings.
I assume that Dennis Brain's recordings of the Mozart Horn Concertos
were made before the NME. Again, who would suggest that they should be
set aside in favour of a modern one on the basis of an old text?
Dan, I will of course accept you may not like Furtwangler - but I think
he says something about the work that no-one else does. It is perhaps
too easy (in my mind) to concentrate simply on the notes - what makes
Mozart so very hard to perform is not the notes, but the music. Possibly
that is too metaphysical a concept in a discussion on textural matters,
but I think it sums up my view. But, to emphasis, THE NOTES ARE
IMPORTANT.
I accept, of course, that your knowledge of these works is far greater
than mine.
Matthew.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Leeson [mailto:leeson0@-----.net]
Subject: Re: [kl] Gran Partitta recording
Matthew Lloyd wrote:
> Dan,
>
> You aren't going to dismiss Furtwangler on that basis are you? The
text
> isn't all.....
>
The text isn't all what??? If the words you have in mind are "not
important," you are in deep doody.
DNL
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