Klarinet Archive - Posting 000258.txt from 2009/01

From: Gary Van Cott <gary@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] baroque clarinet
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:07:34 -0500

I thought "pithy" was a good thing.

Gary
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James Risdon wrote:
> 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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