Author: brycon
Date: 2017-10-19 08:16
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brycon, are you talking about the concerto? Could you tell me your idea regarding the passage I asked in this post?
Yes, the concerto. We have a manuscript of its first movement's exposition.
For the phrase that begins with the pickup into m. 86, many players do staccato on beat 1 of 87, again in 89, and once more in 90. But whereas Mozart himself has staccato in 87, in 89 and 90, he has slurs.
I argue that playing them all staccato completely misses the character of the passage. 87 is in C major; then in 89, where Mozart switches to slurs, the music moves to E minor. Moreover, the orchestration changes as well: (if I remember correctly) violin 2 and violas enter with the switch to slurs.
So if clarinetists do what they want and play all those beats staccato because it sounds nice to them, it's fine. But they're missing a rather beautiful character change in the music. For me, the staccato version isn't bad because it isn't what Mozart wrote; it's bad because it doesn't work with the other parts.
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