Klarinet Archive - Posting 000083.txt from 2008/08

From: John Dablin <jdablin@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Poulenc Sonata
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:27:10 -0400

On Thursday 28 August 2008, Martin Baxter wrote:
> Pursuant to all this there is a different version of Beethoven's
> 'Pastoral' (6th) symphony, which I heard Manchester Camerata play
> in Ulverston. The provenance of the version was given but there
> was no suggestion that the more commonly heard version was
> therefore 'WRONG"; merely that it represented Beethoven's
> thoughts at a different time.
> Martin

On the other hand, there's a recording of the original version of=20
Sibelius 5th Symphony (Google tells me it's the Lahti SO, cond.=20
Osmo V=C3=A4nsk=C3=A4). Having heard it on the radio, the final version is=
=20
much tauter and more concise, and to my ears, better. Would=20
Sibelius have approved recording the older version, I wonder?

John Dablin
Aylesbury UK

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