Klarinet Archive - Posting 000175.txt from 2006/09

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] "best" concerto
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:04:02 -0400

Peculiarly, the only thing that exists of the manuscript of the
Concertante is a draft of a cadenza. It was given to Harvard
University as a gift by a Mozart lover now residing in Seattle.
But one could fill a book about the missing and or lost
manuscripts of Mozart. However, every now and then something
shows up. I had an idea for a novel in which someone, attending
a garage sale or an estate sale finds the manuscript of the
Prague symphony. Crazier things have happened. Maybe someday.

And speaking of books, the novel, "Mozart Forgeries" I wrote with
the clarinet concerto as the central part of the story will
probably stop being available in new copies by the end of this
year. The Mozart quarter millenium celebration is almost at an
end and that will pretty much close out all of the thing that
were written for the commemoration. If you have not gotten your
copy, go to Amazon.com and put my name in. Or else go to
www.leesonbooks.com. (Shameless plug.)

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Bowen [mailto:bowenk@-----.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 8:51 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: RE: [kl] "best" concerto

Dan

I didn't claim it was Urtext. But you should have seen the
bizarre phrasing
in the edition I worked from. However I thought I recall that
there were
more plausible sources for the sinfonia - maybe wrongly.

I mentioned the double stopping below.

Keith

-----Original Message-----
From: klarinet-return-88645-bowenk=compuserve.com@-----.org
[mailto:klarinet-return-88645-bowenk=compuserve.com@-----.org]
On Behalf
Of dnleeson
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 2:35 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: RE: [kl] "best" concerto

Checking the phrasing of the Sinfonie Concertante against the NMA
volume is no more useful than doing the same thing with K. 622.
The manuscript of the concertante has been lost for years. There
is also the issue of the cadenza in the concertante, which
requires double stops.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Bowen [mailto:bowenk@-----.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 11:49 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: RE: [kl] "best" concerto

Ah now we are onto stealing concertos, much more fun to talk
about.

The Mozart Sinfonia Concertante for violin and viola works very
well with
clarinet playing the viola part. Of course one should admit what
one is
doing, but viola players shamelessly steal our stuff! I have a
Sibelius
version of the transcription if anyone is interested; I checked
the phrasing
against the NMA. You preferably need a discreet clarinet or viola
playing
one or two of the double stopped notes in the cadenza but
otherwise there
are no issues, and it is a lovely piece.

Keith Bowen

-----Original Message-----
From: klarinet-return-88641-bowenk=compuserve.com@-----.org
[mailto:klarinet-return-88641-bowenk=compuserve.com@-----.org]
On Behalf
Of Kevin Fay
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 6:10 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: RE: [kl] "best" concerto

Sean disagreed with me re K622:

<<<I do happen to think that the Mozart clarinet concerto stacks
up against
his other great concertos, though Piano cto. #23 is marvelous.>>>

Perhaps I've just heard it too much, played mostly by the
interchangeables.
At middle-school solo festivals, too. Sigh.

Sean then PSed:

<<<PS, for Beethoven violin concerto - check out Michael Collins
playing it
on the clarinet - it works very well (and a music critic friend
of mine
actually likes it better that way).>>>

I will.

I am of the opinion that the Copland violin sonata works *much*
better on
clarinet. There are a couple of good recordings about. When I
heard it
played on violin, I thought it was a feline disagreement.

kjf

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