Deryk Barker wrote:
>Walter Meyer ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
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>>Bob Draper wrote:
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>>>Funny you should say that, because I have all the different versions of
>>>the seven last words (5 in all). My version of the quartet reduction is
>>>the Shostakovich's ...
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>>Quartet reduction by Shostakovich? Is that different from what I always
>>assumed was Haydn's own quartet version? ...
>
>I think he means the Shostakovich Quartet.
That, I realized on reading a later post.
>BTW, I recall reading that there is no conclusive evidence that the SQ
>arrangement is actually by Haydn. Anyone confirm/deny this?
Hold everything now! SQ arrangement? Did Haydn, or did he not, himself
write the string quartet version of the Seven Last Words, which I have on
several recordings, none by the SQ?
Is the SQ performance a different arrangement from those I've heard played
by other quartets? If so, why would Haydn have prepared more than one
string quartet arrangement? If not, I repeat my first question.
This is getting unnerving. I used to say in jest, and now, less so, that
none of Haydn's works seem to be by him, viz., the St. Anthony Chorale,
the "Serenade", one or more of "his" cello concertos, etc. And now, the
quartet version of the Seven Last Words?
Walter Meyer
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