Klarinet Archive - Posting 000052.txt from 2005/02

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Another mistake in K. 622???
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 14:48:15 -0500

I have never heard a recording of 626 in which the basset horns
were not uniformly excellent. So there are none that I have
heard that I would exclude. More important is that you need to
specificy (unlike in any other piece of music) which completion
you prefer. There are at least 6 and musically there are
significant differences.

There is the completion by Sussmayr, made in 1792, by Franz Beyer
ca 1960, by Richard Maunder, ca 1980, by Duncan Druce, ca 1988
(which employs a highly elaborate basset horn part written
especially for the English virtuoso and basset horns "what's his
name," I've forgotten but he is physically disabled to the point
of requiring a wheelchair, though you would never know that from
his playing), by H.C. Robbins Landon, and finally the completion
of Robert Levin recorded in both a European setting of
contemporary instruments (Rilling conducting) and an American
setting of original instruments) both excellent, and was recorded
for a third time only last weekend by the Atlanta Symphony
scheduled for future release.

Bottom line, you will find very little bad basset horn playing on
professional recordings.

Now this information should cost $25. But instead, go to
www.leesonbooks.com and buy a copy of Opus Ultimum: the story of
the Mozart Requiem. That will cost you $25. The author, besides
his brilliance, good looks, understanding of how to coordinate
accessories, and sweet nature, is also a terrific dancer. Do not
introduce him to your wife or girlfiend for they will fall in
love with him in a moment. He will autograph the book for you for
$2. It should be more but that is all he can afford to pay you
at the moment.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Bush [mailto:rbushidioglot@-----.net]
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 11:20 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] Another mistake in K. 622???

Dan & List,

This is somewhat off topic with this thread, except it is about
Mozart
and it is about clarinets.

I'm a fan of basset horns. I want to get a high quality CD of
Mozart's
Requiem. What recordings would you recommend? They must be
recordings
that include well played basset horns. Catalog numbers, record
labels,
etc. would be appreciated.

Thanks to all.

Yours truly,

Richard Bush

rbushidioglot@-----.net

On Feb 3, 2005, at 12:06 PM, dnleeson wrote:

> That is a much bigger job. That this notation was accepted in
> the 18th century is pretty much well established, and while I
was
> advised that Mozart used it elsehwere, I have not made the
effort
> to find exactly that notation it in other places. It's
actually
> worse than that. The other places are in manuscripts that have
> also disappeared, one being the bassoon concerto.
>
> I have absolutely seen him use that notation with a half note
and
> four dots underneath (though slightly different because there
is
> a slash in the half note's stem) but this is the first time I
> have ever seen it with a half note and two dots.
>
> Notwithstanding the absence of the notation elsewhere, I'm
going
> with this because the evidence is quit persuasive, though one
can
> always be wrong about this sort of thing. In fact, I am
writing
> up a technical paper on it now. That's not something I can do
> rapidly. It will take a month to get everthing right. I even
> found a translation error in the famous letter from Constanze
> about the stolen portmanteau of Stadler.
>
> It has to be absolutely accurate to the extent that that
> objective can be achieved.
>
> Dan Leeson
> DNLeeson@-----.net
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Roberts [mailto:timr@-----.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 10:57 AM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: RE: [kl] Another mistake in K. 622???
>
>
> On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 14:55:05 -0800, "dnleeson"
> <dnleeson@-----.net>
> wrote:
>
>> You and Tony may be right about the lack of dots on the violin
>> part. I'll have to check it again when I have time. But I
was
>> so amazed at the dots on the basset horn part and the
> implication
>> of that abbreviation that I went ga-ga for about 10 minutes.
I
>> may write something about that for The Clarinet. Some might
>> think it a small thing, but I think it is hot doo-doo. To
find
> a
>> possible error in 622 at the juncture of history is non
trivial.
>>
>
> Is there a precedent in Mozart's other autographs for this
> notation?
>
> One of the key things I have learned from your posts, Dan, is
> that we
> should be skeptical of interpretations that are not consistent
> with the
> composer's established patterns.
> --
> - Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
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