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Author: ClariAK
Date: 2011-10-13 03:18
I am a sophomore in highschool and will be performing the Alla Polacca movement (3) of Weber 2 in January for a concerto competition. I've listened to numerous recordings, and in Richard Stoltzman's, he adds a little cadenza during the fermata after the Con Fuoco section. I haven't heard anyone else doing this, but I like it. He also changes the ending and adds himself playing overtop the orchestra for the last notes. I really like this interpretation, does anyone have any thoughts? Has anyone added a cadenza themselves?
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Author: Dileep Gangolli
Date: 2011-10-13 12:55
I would encourage you to add a cadenza that you have written yourself. I think this is valid and something that Heinrich Baermann would have done and was standard for the era.
The purpose of the concerto is to display virtuosity and cadenzas are the perfect vehicle for doing that - as long as they are not too long and draw from thematic material already heard in the movement.
Sounds like you are doing your research and coming up with your own unique interpretation. Good luck.
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Author: Bob Phillips
Date: 2011-10-13 15:34
Good advice and insight from Dileep.
DO make it fit with some scrap of the piece; and since you're playing only the 3rd movement, get your inspiration from there.
Consider the Quantz rule (from "How to Play the Flute") that advises the performer to keep the cadenzas to one breath in duration.
Bob Phillips
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Author: rmk54
Date: 2011-10-13 16:50
Bob Phillips wrote:
> Consider the Quantz rule (from "How to Play the Flute") that
> advises the performer to keep the cadenzas to one breath in
> duration.
>
You are confusing "Cadenza" and "Eingang", not to mention baroque and classical (almost romantic) styles.
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Author: Bob Phillips
Date: 2011-10-14 15:17
rmk54,
I don't think I'm confused about the difference between cadenza and eingang, but I agree that Quantz and von Weber were not contemporaries.
A couple of years back, I heard a horrid rendition of one of Beethoven's over-long cadenzas (6-minutes or so) played "straight". It got pretty tedious.
Bob Phillips
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