Klarinet Archive - Posting 000427.txt from 2009/01

From: Tom McKay <tjmckay@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Bernstein Sonata
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:59:47 -0500

Tony

Thanks for this information. It is very helpful.

Tom

On 1/31/09 11:13 AM, "Tony Pay" <tony.p@-----.org> wrote:

> 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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