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Re: ultissimo

Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2007-08-01 14:57

Keith Koons's great article comparing editions of the Mozart Concerto http://www.clarinet.org/fests/1998/Koons.asp notes that the Breitkopf and Hartel Trio Clarone edition of the Mozart Concerto (#EB8523) contains suggestions for playing as many of the hypothetical original low notes as possible, and there are several recordings that do this.

I love hearing a performance on the basset clarinet, but to my taste, at least, after hearing so many recordings with the "standard" notes, I'm bothered by halfway measures, which just remind me that the lowest four notes are missing.

Thea King's basset clarinet performance is, in my opinion, dreadful, though it got an ecstatic critical reception. In her defense, it was recorded on a nearly unplayable instrument. See http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=72303&t=72295 Following up on that posting, Steve Fox is now making a very fine reproduction of Stadler's Riga poster clarinet, and Eric Hoeprich has also made one and recorded the Mozart on it.

Ken Shaw

Post Edited (2007-08-01 15:31)

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