K 334

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Was the 2nd minuet of the divertimento K 334 on 1 May 1987 performed and cut on the video or was it not performed? Why?

Was it included in the 1967 and 1969?

This reminds of the cuts in the 12/31/85 and the 1/1/87.

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as far as i know karajan omits the 2nd minuets when it comes to a performance of k 334 or k 287, the most frequently performed ones by him.

my evidence is that I've a live recording of his with berlin phi. at moscow for k 334 and there also he omits the 2nd minuet, probably for the sake of performance duration.

i also ve his k 287 telemondial concert video recording from japan tour of 1984 where he also omits the 2nd minuet

best

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The K287 is played complete on DG.

K334 is played at the beginning of the videdo "A Profile" by Friedel and I find in it a couple of interesting segments:

Driving the Porsche and greeted by the dog after getting out.

The point made about Karajan not wanting to play the violin growing up vis-a-vis "A Life in Music" on this piece:

While I was studying the divertimento in D (K 334) I realized that parts of it are less good than the B flat divertimento (K 287). The substance of the 2 outer mvts is very weak in comparison, particulary where melodic invention is concerned; and also the enchanting violn solos of the B flat would give the orchestra beter possibilities. Since it is only a change of a number (if program already printed could always be said to be a printing error!) I suggest we alter both the performance and the recording. (p. 321)

Karajan had no doubt that K287 - tarnished, alas, by scholarly evidence of a significant debt to a string quintet by Michael Haydn - is the tauter, wittier, more dramatic work. To judge from his 3 extant recordings, he relished every moment of it. By contrast, all his recordings of K334 have passages that seem strangely disengaged. On the Philharmonia's European tour, K334 was played 6 times, K287 once. (p. 783)

By 1967 he and the BPO could have played more or less anything and still sold out the hall at 3 guineas a seat. (p. 553)