Klarinet Archive - Posting 000259.txt from 2009/01

From: Thomas Carroll <tcarroll303@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] baroque clarinet
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:11:35 -0500

I play on chalumeaux at 415 by Rudolf Tutz (Tutz.at). He does very
good work on his chalumeaux. You can also get replicas from most of the
"period" instrument builders.

petervanderpoel.nl
schoenibern.ch

~Thomas

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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