Klarinet Archive - Posting 000069.txt from 2011/08

From: Mark Thiel <mark.thiel@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Mozart quintet repeat
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 13:36:38 -0400


OK, since no one has actually answered the actual question I originally posed (though as usual there have been interesting digressions), which was
what you personally do in the Mozart Clarinet Quintet slow movement for the reprise of the opening melody (bar 51-70), I listened to some
recordings. I found 4 (which surprised me, though I've also got George Silfies somewhere).

Yes, I know that professional clarinetists are not necessarily (often?) musical experts and that I can't expect to come up with appropriate
performance practice by averaging what I hear.

I also checked tempos just for amusement, though my numbers are rough averages since everyone varied the tempo quite a bit,
especially on the reprise.

Walter Boeykens first time 42; reprise 40, no embellishments

Jozsef Balogh (a Hungarian, should be an accent on the o of Jozsef) first time 44; reprise 42, quieter, no embellishments

Richard Stoltzman first time 38; reprise 35, more vibrato, no embellishments, rubatissimo (or should I say rubato that should
be charged as grand larceny) especially on bar 50, which is the bar of 16th notes leading up to the reprise. The concerto is
on the same disk and in the slow movement there he does a quite nice eingang and tasteful embellishments in the reprise
(along with even more vibrato).

Antony Pay first time 40; reprise 38 with a lot of rubato especially bar 50, embellishments starting in bar 58 (the 7th
bar of the reprise) consisting of 2 apoggiaturas, 1 grupetto, a double grace note and about a dozen 16th notes played
rhythmically instead of eights or quarters.

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