Klarinet Archive - Posting 000105.txt from 2009/10

From: Oliver Seely <oseely@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Lorenzo Coppola plays K. 622
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:05:44 -0400

The cameraman's preoccupation with the brunette=20
flutist reminded me of the Youtube offering by=20
Nigel Kennedy of the Bach A minor Concerto at St.=20
Mary's Church in Dingle, Ireland. The cameraman=20
there had a thing for the first cellist, and the=20
viewer got long, loving, lingering shots of her=20
while Nigel was off screen sawing on his fiddle.

Most unfortunately, subsequent offerings of that=20
performance, or perhaps others in the same place,=20
were shot by another camera crew or maybe the raw=20
take was edited and the original doesn't seem to=20
be available any longer. In any case, the early=20
one I saw was disarmingly endearing. It seemed=20
also to be a 7-camera set-up. Coppola's was at=20
least a 4-camera, maybe 5-camera set-up. Some of=20
the stuff now appearing on the internet is=20
stunning. You won't be seeing Ollie and selected=20
members of his Sili(con) Symphony (shot with a=20
$69 camcorder) any time soon! 8-)

As for Coppola's basset clarinet, it would be=20
yummy to be able to play K.622 with runs from the=20
very lowest note to the highest without having to=20
retrace one's steps between octaves.Ya gotta love the internet!

Oliver

At 10:46 AM 10/9/2009, you wrote:
>Dan Leeson wrote:
> > But the performance was not without its problems. Right at the top of
> > the heap is the high g played in the final movement. There is no
> > authority for that note, and in no manuscript of Mozart does it appear.
> > It is simply a 20th century insertion that is of questionable presence.
> > I think the highest note that can be found in Mozart's autograph is the
> > high e (the fourth and fifth notes in the theme of the gran Partitta's
> > variations movements).
>
>Do we have any Mozart manuscript for that whole movement, let alone that
>note? I understand that you meant the note doesn't appear in any Mozart
>manuscript containing the clarinet. But since Mozart only wrote one
>clarinet concerto, and that for a very particular (and skilled)
>virtuoso, it doesn't seem reasonable to infer the wrongness of that note
>from what he wrote for clarinet in non-concertante works.
>
>On what basis do you say the note is a '20th-century addition'? An 1881
>Breitkopf & H=C3=A4rtel edition of the score certainly has that note in it:
>http://imslp.org/wiki/Special:ImagefromIndex/29515
>... which, though almost 100 years after Mozart wrote the concerto, is
>still pre-20th-century. (Is anyone aware of any earlier editions of the
>score available online? Is the note in the first published score?)
>
>There's one other piece of evidence that this note is legit. S=C3=BCssmayr=
's
>concerto movement for basset clarinet, written for Stadler, includes a
>run up the 4 octaves of the instrument, from bottom- to super-C:
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DAigc9_m3wrY
>... which suggests at least that Stadler was quite capable of playing
>such high notes.
>
>Best wishes,
>
> -- Joe
>
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