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Author: ClarinetVirtuoso
Date: 2026-06-30 03:35
I was listening to Sabine Meyer’s recording of Carl Stamitz’s Concerto for Basset Horn. Her solo part is very different from the edition I have performed from which is the Amadeus edition. Does anyone here know if Sabine has prepared another edition, and who may publish it?
Thank you in advance for your help.
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Author: Marnix van den Berg
Date: 2026-07-01 11:25
As far as I know it, her edition was never published. Her embellishments were written speficially for her by the composer/scholar Andreas Tarkmann.
When I performed it I transcribed by ear what she was playing, then adapted it to my own ideas.
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Author: Cdh
Date: 2026-07-05 08:25
Hello Clarinetvirtuoso,
I think you will find the edition you are wanting here:
https://tarkmann.com/kategorie&k=59
There are also editions of the the other Tarkmann transcriptions and embellishments commissioned by Sabine Meyer.
Also, if you have not received emails from me over the last two months, check your junk folder, as I have a new email address which may have been filtered.
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Author: Marnix van den Berg
Date: 2026-07-05 10:34
I didn't know Mr. Tarkmann had published the solo parts separately, don't think he had when I performed it, but that sure would have been ncie back then.
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Author: donald
Date: 2026-07-05 16:17
I copied out Sabine Meyer's (rather historically inappropriate) cadenza from the 1st mvt of the Johann Stamitz concerto, I've got it on a hard drive somewhere.... I last played this with an orchestra in 2015 and recall, during the cadenza, looking down the centre isle and seeing the music director of Bach Musica glaring at me from the back of the hall, offended by the historical inappropriateness of the thing. I confess, I enjoyed playing it....
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Author: Cdh
Date: 2026-07-06 14:54
I am with the Bach Musica director! But not Sabine's fault - that was also the work of Mr Tarkmann. I really don't like it either, and not just because it is not "historical". I find the sequence of ideas, i.e. "the story", doesn't work. Each to their own I suppose, but all credit to Sabine for recognising her limitations in that area and commissioning someone else to compose the cadenza for her.
Far worse are the cadenzas provided in the new Henle edition by Nicolai Pfeffer. One would think that in a modern scholarly edition at least one of the suggested cadenzas would be stylistically appropriate for a five key clarinet, even if another, more modern option was offered.
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Author: davyd
Date: 2026-07-06 22:07
What makes a particular cadenza "appropriate"? What "historical" or "stylistic" characteristics should one look for?
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