Klarinet Archive - Posting 000459.txt from 2004/08

From: <duffyl@-----.ca>
Subj: Re: [kl] Source for K. 581 (was K. 581 performance practice)
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 07:55:09 -0400

I believe the Sinfonia Concertante K297 for 'Winds" is another piece that
has been credited to Mozart but is alas under doubt as to whether or not it
is Mozart...as to how much of this occurs in the Mozart Lexicon of completed
works I have no idea...but at the same time it is understandable. There was
just simply alot of music being composed in the era Mozart lived some what
we may consider great and some not so great...but there is alot of fine
stuff too.

We don't hear nearly enough about how fine Haydn is and even his brother
Michael who wrote some stupendous music too. CPE Bach is tremedous and a
very important composer who acts as a bridge from the Baroque to the
Classical era.

IN TERMS of performance practice the idea of improvising a given strain is a
very enlightened approach...I would even think in the classical era with
it's emphasis on brilliance and florid playing (epecially in Variation form)
the approach of adding or embellishing the music on the second time through
or toward the end of the Development section is not only acceptable but fun.

Recently I did the Slow music from the Concerto in Concert and after the
Cadenza I change into a more ornamented style.

Its alot of fun...

David Dow
Symphony NB

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