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Author: Klose ★2017
Date: 2018-05-05 03:01
Now this concert is available on the archive of the Digital Concert Hall.
Wenzel Fuchs, principal clarinetist of Berliner Philharmonic Orchestra
played this piece with his orchestra under the baton the Alan Gilbert.
If anyone wants to have a listen, you can use this link to get a 48 hours
of free access to the Digital Concert Hall.
http://getd.ch/fpvzpT5
To me, Fuchs played this piece in a modern way but his sound concept still
clearly has a Viennese tradition. The encore Tosca is also very wonderful,
and it can be taken as an example for people who are preparing an audition.
Furthermore, in the interview, Mr. Fuchs also gave some very useful
insights into this most important work for clarinet. But the info that
this piece was written for Basset horn is not accurate. Current knowledge
is that Mozart started composing for Basset horn but later changed his
mind.
If you do get this 48 hour ticket, I recommend you also take the chance to
listen the Weber concerto no.1 played by Mr. Ottensamer, the other
principal. These two pieces are widely used for audition by a lot of
orchestras, Berliner Phiharmoniker included.
Enjoy!
Post Edited (2018-05-05 12:35)
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Author: seabreeze
Date: 2018-05-05 07:13
This concerto can sound convincing on the basset clarinet or the modern standard clarinet in A as Fuchs, Anthony McGill and many other clarinetists have demonstrated. Fuchs' playing is dark, well shaped, and essentially vibratoless, in the Viennese tradition of Leopold Wlach, which seems to work well for Mozart, and he freely reads the sheet music on stage rather than playing it from memory and sensibly applies melodic ornamentation (especially in Adagio) as he sees fit. A performance both traditional and creative.
Post Edited (2018-05-05 22:21)
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Author: JohnP
Date: 2018-05-05 12:08
Hi Klose
In the interview Fuchs says Mozart wrote the first movement initially for Basset Horn and then the other two movements for basset clarinet. I think that is correct. The subtitles are not precise at that point.
John
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Author: Klose ★2017
Date: 2018-05-05 12:31
Hi John,
Not really. Even for the first movement, based on the fragment we found, Mozart changed the key. So it is not entirely correct to say Mozart initially composed first movement for Basset horn (and it has more or less only solo line). But I am sure Fuchs knows the whole story.
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Author: JohnP
Date: 2018-05-05 16:31
Here is a link to the autograph facsimile of the basset horn version.
http://dme.mozarteum.at/DME/nma/nma_cont_mobile.php?vsep=139&gen=edition&l=2&p1=165
John
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Author: Klose ★2017
Date: 2018-05-05 21:17
John,
I assume you know that on this "draft" autograph facsimile, from bar 180 onwards Mozart wrote with a different pen and in different key, with the bass line no longer in the key of G major, but in A major?
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Author: Klose ★2017
Date: 2018-05-06 23:31
John,
OK, this is an important piece of info. So the likely situation is that Mozart changed his mind during the process of composing for the first movement. As a result, I think it is not accurate to say that this concerto was originally composed for basset horn. To avoid and confusion, it is better to say this concerto was written for basset clarinet while not mentioning basset horn.
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