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Author: John G.
Date: 2002-09-13 18:31
Are there any commercially available editions of the Mozart quintet and concerto for basset clarinet? All I can find on Sneezy threads are references to cd's and research editions. Thanks.
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Author: Brian Peterson
Date: 2002-09-13 18:59
Look for the Baerenreiter edition.
The basset part is noted within the standard A clarinet part.
BP
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Author: thomas piercy
Date: 2002-09-13 20:42
There is:
W. A. Mozart
Concerto K 622
Universal Clarinet Edition
UE 19086
ISMN M-008-05672-7
Edited by Pamela Weston
Both an A clarinet part and a Basset Clarinet in A part are included with the piano reduction.
Tom Piercy
thomaspiercy.com
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Author: Ken
Date: 2002-09-13 21:02
Really? I didn't know the basset clarinet was keyed in A, I always thought it was Bb. I learned something new today!
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Author: d dow
Date: 2002-09-16 03:47
alan hacker was the first to offer an edition of this piece back in the mid 70s.
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Author: Ralph Katz
Date: 2002-09-18 20:33
Look up the article on this subject in The Clarinet in the last year. Included several players' basset notes additions for several key phrases.
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Author: Tony Pay
Date: 2002-09-18 23:26
The only reasonable edition at the moment is the Barenreiter version. All the others add the opinions of the player/editors with regard to dynamics and phrasing, as opposed to following the minimal indications we have from the first published edition and the Winterthur fragment.
Keith Koons's paper is comprehensive, but comprehensive only about the subjective ideas of the various editors, and therefore of no use in coming to a decision.
Pamela Weston's edition of the Concerto is to be avoided at all costs. It is based on a transcription for piano quintet belonging to a slightly later period. However, what she extracts from the piano part is totally unidiomatic for Stadler's clarinet, and is inextricably entwined with her own interpretative ideas. Moreover, it contradicts what we have of the piece in Mozart's own hand, which corresponds pretty closely to the first printed edition.
Again, the Barenreiter is the only acceptable published source, even though the decisions made about the octave transpositions for basset clarinet are questionable in places. The Breitkopf edition might have been preferable -- and the orchestral parts are almost certainly preferable, because you can turn over in plausible places! -- but the editorial additions of the Trio Clarone put it out of court, in my view. These additions are in brackets, true -- but they are all too legible, and interfere with the construction of a sensible view of how this music works.
Tony Pay
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Author: d dow
Date: 2002-09-20 14:36
Dear Tony; I have the Weston copy of this and find it bizarre in where and when changes of some intervals take place....the Barenreiter I prefer for teaching and find it more suited to the tone of the instrument...
I also note that the peice gains a great deal when played on the copy of a Vienna Basset in A.
I would also like to add that I admore your work very much.
All the best,
David Dow Canada
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