Klarinet Archive - Posting 000251.txt from 2006/03

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] K622 orchestral parts
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:39:35 -0500

For the answer Tony's question, see below:

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Pay [mailto:tony.p@-----.org]
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 8:57 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] K622 orchestral parts

On 14 Mar, Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling@-----.net> wrote:

> Tony Pay wrote:
>
> > Also, though probably this won't concern you, the horn parts
are
> > transposed and written in F, which is a nonsense if you want
to use hand
> > horns in A, as you should in a proper period performance.
>
> I can sort of understand that in terms of the basic set of
parts that
> you get when you make a purchase, but I find it amazing they
won't send
> you those parts on request. What with the software available
for
> typesetting music, it can't be *that* difficult.

The Baerenreiter parts are handwritten, not particularly well.
And, the firm
is notoriously tardy. (How long did it take for K361 parts to
appear, Dan?)

From Dan Leeson in response to the above.

Bärenreiter had no intentions of printing performance parts of
361, but when they saw that the Emerson edition (edited by Roger
Hellyer) out of the UK was selling well, they changed their mind.
The original edition was submitted to Bärenreiter in 1972,
printed in 1979, and parts finally came out around 2001, if
memory serves me correctly. The parts say "1979" but that was
simply the date when the score appeared. It took more than 20
years for them to produce parts.

> What about Henle? They produced a clarinet-and-piano edition
of the
> concerto recently (and their basset reconstruction is a bit
different from
> Bärenreiter's). Have they got a full set of parts as well?

More from Leeson: I had dinner with the president of Henle in
Salzburg a few months ago, and I asked him why the new edition of
622 is stated to be "Urtext." We both know that the term does
not apply unless the material derives from the manuscript. It
happens to be a very intelligent and thoughtful edition, BUT IT
IS NOT URTEXT. I gave a talk on that subject in Bloomington. It
was entitled, "Abandon ye all hope of ever getting an authentic
edition of K. 622."

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