Klarinet Archive - Posting 000417.txt from 2009/01

From: Tony Pay <tony.p@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Bernstein Sonata
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:13:49 -0500

On 31 Jan, Tom McKay <tjmckay@-----.edu> wrote:

> I am just starting to look at this too. The edition I have is Boosey and
> Hawkes, with copyrights listed for 1943 and 2001. (Under Bernstein's name,
> it has '1941-42' indicating when it was written.)
>
> Mine has lots of metronome markings. I don't know if those are the
> composer's, but they probably are. (No editor is listed.)

There are discrepancies between the clarinet part and the score in earlier
versions. (The piano part is of course to be preferred.)

There seems to be no reason why the metronome marks should not be read as
Bernstein's, though the metronome marking of the beginning of the second
movement was originally misprinted as quarter=69 instead of eighth=69.

There have been postings here on the subject in the past; here are some of
mine:

http://test.woodwind.org/Databases/Klarinet/2004/04/000406.txt
http://test.woodwind.org/Databases/Klarinet/2004/04/000408.txt
http://test.woodwind.org/Databases/Klarinet/2004/04/000430.txt
http://test.woodwind.org/Databases/Klarinet/2004/04/000436.txt
http://test.woodwind.org/Databases/Klarinet/2004/04/000441.txt
http://test.woodwind.org/Databases/Klarinet/2004/05/000108.txt

The final post speaks about the B&H 2001 edition.

I have to say that I find the transpositions in that to be less natural than
the ones in previous editions (mine is Witmark, 1943), though that may be a
matter of my having become used to the previous ones.

There is no such thing as a 'best' recording of a piece, if you mean by that
one that you can profitably copy. Work out for yourself what Bernstein
meant by what he wrote. Then you can judge recordings for yourself, too.

Tony
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