Klarinet Archive - Posting 000109.txt from 2006/12
From: "Keith Bowen" <bowenk@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Beethoven 7 for harmoniemuik ensemble
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 23:46:24 -0500
Thanks for the info, Laurence. Noted.
Keith
> -----Original Message-----
> From: klarinet-return-89538-bowenk=compuserve.com@-----.org
> [mailto:klarinet-return-89538-bowenk=compuserve.com@-----.org] On
> Behalf Of Laurence Beckhardt
> Sent: 21 December 2006 00:54
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: RE: [kl] Beethoven 7 for harmoniemuik ensemble
>
>
> 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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