On 5 May 2005 at 22:03, Raymond Horton wrote:

> David W. Fenton wrote:
> 
> >If the 15ba performance is forced on modern players by the notes
> >available to them, then I really think they oughtn't play the damned
> >thing! It really does sound that bad!
> >
> I seriously doubt this.  Modern bass players can play things that bass
> players 200 years ago would never have dreamt of.  Even now you can
> read in recent publications that thumb positions are impossible on
> bass, yet modern players are perfecting that technique as we speak.  I
> still don't know the passage to which we are referring, but I can't
> imagine the situation being one of a limit in modern bass technique. 

OK. I've put up a PDF a the first half of the score, and an MP3 of 
the recording. They are:

  http://www.dfenton.com/K612/K612.PDF
  http://www.dfenton.com/K612/K612.mp3

The PDF is just under a megabyte (and the scans were not good -- 
strange lines in them, dunno why), and the MP3 is about 10MBs (192K 
encoding).

Comments welcome. I find the recording to be a dreadfully wrong 
representation of what Mozart wrote. The singer is quite good, but 
the bass is awful, in my opinion.

-- 
David W. Fenton                        http://www.bway.net/~dfenton
David Fenton Associates                http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc

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