Beethoven and The Metronome, I Author(s) : Peter Stadlen Source: Music & Letters, Vol. 48, No. 4 (Oct., 1967), Pp. 330-349 Published By: Oxford University Press Accessed: 12-08-2016 05:22 UTC
"Did he perform all of those concertos that he wrote cadenzas for"
I've personally only witnessed the K. 449 on a tour in Japan five
years ago. I'm sure he did at some point, but I have no recording evidence of that currently. "Have you considered releasing the Corelli, Elegy & the 466 concerto on a official album release?" We did entertain the idea of releasing more of my father's unissued recordings - but I'm fairly certain it would entail all kinds of legal proceedings, business negotiations, buerucratic shenanigans, contacting several kinds of governing bodies within the classical music realms both foreign and domestic such as legal aid bureaus, recording companies, parent companies which supervise those recording companies and last but not least, we must thoroughly inform ourselves who holds the rights to what. All of this can take months or even years. We are behind a long and tedious probate procedure which started after my father's death two and a half years ago and I can't even tell you how much we've been through. I'm now legally the sole heir to all of the rights concerning the musical work of my father, but in practice, it is much more complicated than that. But in the future, anything could happen. "Have you ever considered performing the complete cycle?!" I mean, if they pay me well... Jokes aside, it would certainly be an interesting idea, but it is a project spanning several years we're speaking of, if you're talking about recording it. Plus, I would be obligated to produce a record of the highest quality and to the best of my ability to avoid it being a stereotypical, laborious marathon, a music olympiad, if you please - which is antithetical to the nature of music. Mozart is my favorite composer, I wouldn't get tired of his compositions, that's for sure. If I'm planning to do a recording of them, I have to play them live first, and we have to establish which concertos we're planning to inculde. Do we take into consideration the concert rondos, and the two-three piano concertos? The early transcriptions (K. 37-41) of early-classical kleinmeisters? I've played the K. 365, K. 414, K. 415, K. 466, K. 467, and the K. 488 so far. If I'm not in a hurry, under right conditions, why not? :) Of course, this is all a hypothetical thought experiment. For now, I would be more than happy with the ones my father wrote cadenzas for. Here are all the links to the videos I've mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra56z5xUKVg&t=4s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLaTt0QKvQo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu6aSGcvNFY
Beethoven and The Metronome, I Author(s) : Peter Stadlen Source: Music & Letters, Vol. 48, No. 4 (Oct., 1967), Pp. 330-349 Published By: Oxford University Press Accessed: 12-08-2016 05:22 UTC