Klarinet Archive - Posting 000249.txt from 2006/10

From: "Keith Bowen" <bowenk@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Margaret on Sabine Meyer's performance of K. 581
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 09:32:00 -0400

Charles Neidich did the same at a performance in the Prague Spring earlier
this year. The program stated, amusingly "Originally, there was no cadenza
in this concerto....". As you say, there still isn't!

Keith Bowen

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> Subject: [kl] Margaret on Sabine Meyer's performance of K. 581
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> If I fully understand what Margaret wrote about Meyer's
> performance of K. 581, she actually inserted a cadenza where it
> was not requested. Margaret wrote: "[In a performance of the last
> movement of K. 581] after the Eingang, and its resolution, there
> was a cadenza which modulated into a distant key."
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> I have absolutely no reason to disbelieve what Margaret wrote
> about this matter. As such, this is a sad example of Meyer's
> failure to understand the nature and purpose of a cadenza in an
> 18th century composition. It is real case of a square peg in a
> round hole, and I'm amazed that such a gifted performer would
> make such a significant error of form.
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> Dan Leeson
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