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 Re: How do you approach baroque music?
Author: Tony Pay ★2017
Date:   2016-12-07 04:09

Thanks, Liquorice; I certainly didn't know that. I should keep my ear closer to the ground.

Perhaps what he said to us on one of the several occasions we tried to get him to work with us wasn't the whole truth, then. I didn't have anything to do with that myself, so I was just reporting what I'd been told. But he was certainly on record as saying that old instruments weren't obligatory for his ideas to have their effect.

I have to say that though I cited his book with approval, I'm not a wholehearted fan of his own work. It often seems to me to be too much concerned with obtaining striking unwritten crescendo effects rather than with properly representing the background to the musical style. I'm more of the Leonhardt/Bruggen/Kuijken school myself. And I find Mozart's music often achieves its effect rather by contrast – think of the first two bars of the Allegro of K361, where a crescendo in the first bar merely spoils the drama of the juxtaposition of two sorts of music that dominates the whole movement.

I've never played a B clarinet, though of course I've straddled the phenomenon by playing on both Bb and C. You'll know that there's one number on it in Cosi too – Fiordiligi's aria – but funnily enough not the Terzettino, which is in G major on the A clarinet.

I myself routinely try to avoid the 'noise in the sound' that you speak of, preferring to find musical expression through other channels – which of course does involve varying timbre as well as what you might call 'rhythmic nuance'. Though that's in the literature (CPE Bach, Quantz, Leopold Mozart), I feel that how to use it both effectively and unobtrusively has been a quite recent discovery for me.

I like to think of CDF Schubart's description of CPE Bach's keyboard playing: "One is aware of witchcraft without noticing a single magical gesture."

Tony
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