Klarinet Archive - Posting 000107.txt from 2006/12

From: Laurence Beckhardt <lbeckhardt@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Beethoven 7 for harmoniemuik ensemble
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:53:58 -0500

If you're interested, you might want to check out the
contemporary arrangements of Andreas Tarkmann
(tarkmann.de/content/bearb_blaeser.html). He's an
oboist.

He's improved many of the Mozart opera harmonie
arrangements, in my vacuous opinion.

He has also done a marvelous arrangement of Smetana's
Bartered Bride that works really well in beer gardens.
And he has arranged music from Figaro for the same
instrumentation as the Gran Partita. He's also
arranged Schubert's Alfonso und Estrella, an opera
that you probably won't hear much in any other
arrangement.

By the way, I think the most effective opera harmonie
arrangement is Heidenreich's Magic Flute. But that's
just my opinion.

Cheers.
--- dnleeson <dnleeson@-----.net> wrote:

> Operatic harmoniemusik is a much difficult act to
> bring off. The
> vast preponderance of arrangement are for a solo
> clarinet or a
> solo oboe accompanied by some reserved oom-pa music.
> Even the
> Mozart operas that exist in that fashion are not
> very good
> arrangements. Outside of the Fidelio, there isn't
> very much
> operatic stuff worth working on. It has a tendency
> to bore the
> performers.
>
> Dan Leeson
> DNLeeson@-----.net
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Bowen [mailto:bowenk@-----.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 4:36 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: RE: [kl] Beethoven 7 for harmoniemuik
> ensemble
>
>
> Dan,
>
> I'm afraid you may miss us - Feb 17 - 19
> (Presidents' Day
> weekend). And it
> was you who recommended and put me in touch with
> Chris Weait,
> whom I am
> looking forward to meeting and studying with. I
> thought I'd
> thanked you for
> this intro, but if I forgot, I do so now!
>
> The theme next year will likely be "operatic
> Harmoniemusik" and
> we'll do
> Fidelio then! And I am getting contra or string bass
> both years.
>
> Keith
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:
>
klarinet-return-89532-bowenk=compuserve.com@-----.org
> >
>
[mailto:klarinet-return-89532-bowenk=compuserve.com@-----.org]
> On
> > Behalf Of dnleeson
> > Sent: 21 December 2006 00:14
> > To: klarinet@-----.org
> > Subject: RE: [kl] Beethoven 7 for harmoniemuik
> ensemble
> >
> >
> > That sounds wonderful. You had not told me that
> Chris Weait is
> > going to be there. Lovely man and a fabulous
> bassoonist.
> >
> > I am sorry that you are not doing the Fidelio
> arrangement.
> That
> > one, in my opinion, is the finest of all the
> Harmoniemusik.
> The
> > Pathetique piano sonata is nice as is the Haydn
> Oxford
> Symphony,
> > but the Fidelio is astounding. However you have
> to have the
> > contrabassoon or string bass to play it.
> Otherwise it has no
> > bottom and the glorious canonical quartet called
> "Mir Ist So
> > Wunderbard" is an empty shell.
> >
> > What are your dates for doing the program. As I
> told you, I
> will
> > be in Santa Fe in late January but only for 5
> days.
> >
> > Dan Leeson
> > DNLeeson@-----.net
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Keith Bowen [mailto:bowenk@-----.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 4:07 PM
> > To: klarinet@-----.org
> > Subject: RE: [kl] Beethoven 7 for harmoniemuik
> ensemble
> >
> >
> > Yes I did know it went down to one known set. That
> is now in
> the
> > Beethoven
> > Archive in Bonn. It is quite possibly by Sedlak,
> but the
> > identification is
> > not proven as far as I know. I didn't know you
> were
> instrumental
> > in reviving
> > it, Dan. Parts are now available from Compusic,
> Schottstaedt as
> > Laurence
> > says, and Ut Orpheus in a new arrangement by
> Destri. After
> Tony's
> > comments I
> > am going with the Compusic (and his transcription
> for C
> > clarinet).
> >
> > Tony Pay and OAE played the Scherzo at the concert
> I heard, and
> I
> > enjoyed
> > that. It is a tone down from the orchestral
> original, and the
> > development of
> > the Finale is omitted.
> >
> > The theme of this winter's Kammermusik, with Chris
> Weait
> > directing, is
> > "Symphonic Harmoniemusik", so it has to be tried!
> We are also
> > playing the
> > Mozart Linz, Prague and Paris symphonies (the
> Prague is in a
> > modern
> > arrangement by Geoffrey Emerson, which is very
> good, the other
> > two
> > contemporary) and Haydn #85 and #92. That should
> keep us busy
> for
> > a weekend.
> >
> > Keith Bowen
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From:
>
klarinet-return-89520-bowenk=compuserve.com@-----.org
> > >
> >
>
[mailto:klarinet-return-89520-bowenk=compuserve.com@-----.org]
> > On
> > > Behalf Of dnleeson
> > > Sent: 20 December 2006 21:43
> > > To: klarinet@-----.org
> > > Subject: RE: [kl] Beethoven 7 for harmoniemuik
> ensemble
> > >
> > >
> > > Is everyone aware that the Beethoven 7
> arrangement at one
> time
> > > existed in only one copy of the parts? A Dutch
> lover of
> > > harmoniemusik searched that set of parts down
> somewhere in
> > > Germany, and from that set made a copy for me.
> I played it
> in
> > > the early 1970s and it was a screamer. I was
> not impressed
> > with
> > > the arrangement.
> > >
> > > I think that the Dutch player finally got Musica
> Rara to
> issue
> > a
> > > set of parts.
>
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