VW Cadenza - Fletch & Jacobs


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Posted by Marty Neilan on March 27, 2003 at 23:08:06:

I was playing the first movement cadenza of the VW concerto for a professional trombonist today. He asked me why I played the notes I played, as they were different what was on the printed music in front of me. I told him that that is how Jacobs and Fletcher played it. I even popped in the infamous Jacobs-CSO-Barenboim 'one-take' recording to prove it to him. He asked me why they both changed it, and changed it to basically the same thing. He did comment that he liked their version more than the printed.

So, WHY is the cadenza on Jake's and Fletch's recordings NEAR IDENTICAL to each other BUT different from the printed page? Did they get the inside scoop from Mr. V-W himself or something?






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