Klarinet Archive - Posting 000061.txt from 2008/12

From: "Matthew Lloyd" <matthew@-----.uk>
Subj: RE: [kl] Gran Partitta, again
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:56:00 -0500

The basset parts are usually included as third and fourth Bb clarinets.

The "double bass" part was originally for contrabassoon anyway.

Matthew

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From: Bear Woodson [mailto:bearwoodson@-----.net]
Sent: 17 December 2008 20:12
To: Klarinet List
Subject: [kl] Gran Partitta, again

Hello, Everyone.

I have a few questions about the Gran Partitta, as I've
been listening to it again. (I've got the CD by the Marlboro
Ensemble with the Mozart Sonata for Bassoon and Cello.)

The Second Movement has 2 Trios, and it sounds like
Laughing Boy wrote a few phrases that Change Meters
in the Second Trio. Is that correct? (I'm guessing that Mr.
Leeson would know more about that, as I do not have a
score of this work.) I'd have to go listen again, but just off
the top of my head, I think he had another Changing Meters
passage later in the work, perhaps in the 5th or 6th
Movements.

I'm also wondering if they routinely print Alternate
Part Books to replace the 2 Basset Horns, which are so
rare and expensive these days, with the more commonly
available Alto E-Flat Clarinets, or even 2 B-Flat Bass
Clarinets. (I'm guessing that Mr. Van Cott would know
something about that.) As popular as the work is, I'm sure
that a lot of Alto and Bass players would LOVE to play
this work!

I'm also wondering if there are Adjusted Versions of the
Double Bass Part, to better accommodate the Lower
Written Range of a Contra Bassoon.

While I'm asking, the Program Notes in that CD refer to
3 additional, spurious Mozart Bassoon Concerti, one in C
and the other 2 in Bb. I remember many years ago reading
that one catalogue listed Haydn as having FOUR Cello
Concerti, of which the D Major has been frequently played
since his lifetime, and the C Major was discovered some-
time around the 1960's, and immediately became famous.
The other 2 Haydn Cello Concerti are still missing, but I'm
sure they'd be cherished, if ever found. Likewise, I'm
wondering how Authentic that claim was of Mozart having
3 more missing Bassoon Concerti. Does anyone know
more about this?

Bear Woodson
Composer in Tucson, Arizona, USA

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