Klarinet Archive - Posting 000257.txt from 2009/01
From: "James Risdon" <jrisdon@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] baroque clarinet
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:04:01 -0500
The posts on baroque clarinet repertoire are interesting from my standpoint
as a recorder player who plays a reasonable standard clarinet but not
seriously.
I love the concerto by Telemann (late I think) in D minor for two
chalameaux. Somehow his music, and that of Vivaldi and Handel have an inner
drive and vitality which I just don't get with many slightly later composers
of the 18th century such as father and son Stamitz whose music is pithy to
my ears. I'm sure there are ways of expressing this more academically and
it is simply my opinion, but I wonder if anyone can explain musically why
this might be.
Going back to the Telemann, or indeed the Vivaldi mentionned, where would
one obtain a chalameaux from if one wanted to play this music? It would
lose something if played on a modern clarinet.
Cheers, James
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Bassett [mailto:bassettt1@-----.com]
Sent: 30 December 2008 19:02
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: [kl] baroque clarinet
thanks. I have found a lot of transcriptions for clarinet such as the Oboe
Concerto in G minor by Handel and a Vivaldi suite in C minor but no pieces
actually for clarinet. Through the suggestions of people on this list, I
also found that Johann Stamitz (father of Carl) wrote a clarinet concerto
and I listened to it but it wasn't baroque enough for me. Actually, the
cadenza in the first movement very closely resembles Charles Niedich's
Cadenza in his performance of Introduction, Theme, and Variations by
Rossini. Since I haven't seen the actual music for the Stamitz, that lead
me to beleive that the performer wrote his own cadenza and got ideas from
Niedich's cadenza. I think it would be very interesting if Stamitz wrote
the Cadenza considering the years seperating his concerto and the Rossini
(and Charles Niedich). It sounds to me like the Cadenzas are nearly
interchangeable aside from the difference in Rythmic motifs. Does anyone
know anything?
Tom
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