Klarinet Archive - Posting 000456.txt from 2003/06

From: Dan Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Purchase of Orchestral Parts
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 09:49:04 -0400

Let me make one modification of my previous note on this subject. The
Duncan Druce edition (which has two recordings, one of which was done in
Leeds, I think) has a killer basset horn part. It was specifically
written for Alan Hacker and one finds the Benedictus of that edition to
be an especially challenging section. I played the first American
performance of this splendid edition.

When I said that all the editions can be read at sight (including the
Druce edition), I should say that they all require a great deal of
musical sensitivity, but not a significant technichal challenge except
for the Druce section mentioned above.

Dan Leeson

Dan Leeson wrote:
> I mention that none of the most popular six various editions (and which
> are significantly different in what one has to play) are of a difficulty
> that would give you much of a problem. Of these, one edition, the
> Kalmus edition, will sell you just the basset horn parts for a few
> dollars each. It is a publishing company that will sell you the second
> trombone of Beethoven's third symphony. That sort of thing. But what
> you will get is a set of parts that can only be used with the Süssmayr
> completion of the Requiem. You cannot use it with the Levin, Maunder,
> Druce, Beyer, or Robbins Landon editions.
>
> These last five are not available outside of buying the complete
> orchestral set and I believe that three of them (Levin, Maunder, and
> Druce) are available only on rental.
>
> The orchestral scores to all six editions are available for purchase, so
> you could buy the scores and extract the parts from them. But I think
> that the effort would not be worth the trouble. The parts are
> relatively easy to play at sight.
>
> So I ask what it is that you want to achieve by owning the basset horn
> parts to any of the six different editions of the Mozart Requiem?
>
> Dan Leeson
>
> Matthew Lloyd wrote:
>
>> I would like to be able to come really familiar with both the Basset
>> Hound parts in the Mozart Requiem. That essentially means having my own
>> parts. I am not prepared to buy a full orchestral set to do that - nor
>> do I want to "borrow" some parts and photocopy them.
>>
>> Does anyone have a source (preferably in the UK) of orchestral parts for
>> one line only? Is it something that one can normally get?
>>
>> Or is what I am suggesting so weird? And (this is really I suppose
>> likely to be Dan or Tony) - if there is more than one version - which is
>> the better/best?
>>
>> I could do them with Sibelius, but seems an awful fiddle. I have the
>> full score anyway.
>>
>> Matthew Lloyd
>>
>>
>>
>>
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