Klarinet Archive - Posting 000229.txt from 2006/10

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] ornamentation Mozart 2nd movement
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:43:00 -0400

I cannot comment on Tony's perspective about this matter, because
we have never discussed it at any length, but I did hear Michael
Whight's performance, which I thought to be splendid except for
the slow movement. And I told him so, saying that as beautiful as
he plays, he sound like everyone else, and if I did not know it
was him, it could be any fine clarinetist; i.e., he was missing
the opportunity to make a personal statement.

Most players not only don't want to do it in the slow movement,
they find or invent excuses for not doing it, the most common of
which is that "I don't want to gild the lily." This means that
anything they might add would be superfluous. It is not a
position that I agree to, but that the choice available to the
player. And I cannot criticize what someone else choses to do. If
I were asked to review the performance, then that is a different
story.

My own feelings about the slow movement of 622 are that you would
have to be made of stone to play the tune at the recapituation
the same way as you did at the beginning.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: David Adlam [mailto:david.adlam@-----.nz]
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 3:48 PM
To: klarinet
Subject: [kl] ornamentation Mozart 2nd movement

Dan

I have performed the Mozart about a dozen times over the last 20-
30 years
and like to think that I am getting closer to a historically
informed
performance . (I have said I do not want to perform it again
unless I can
do it with a Basset clarinet.....hard to justify the cost however
in any
kind of economic way....despite the huge musical advantage!).

That being said, I read you remarks about ornamentation with huge
interest
and a lot of agreement.

However I wondered why - in the perfomances that I hear -
including a fine
one by Michael Whight, which he tells me you heard and said that
you enjoyed
much of - players do not seem to ornament the return of the theme
of the
second movement of the K.622 concerto.
I heard Tony Pay play this on an "original" instrument and
noticed that in
that performance at least (AOE- 2004), he did not ornament that
return
either. It would be good to hear your comments as well Tony!!

I think it is an ideal place for admittedly restrained
ornamentation and
wondered if there were some reason why so many players do not
take this
opportunity!

I will be interested to hear what you (and Tony?) have to say in
this
regard.

Pizza gets quite cold between New Zealand and USA.......sorry!

David Adlam

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