Klarinet Archive - Posting 000118.txt from 1994/09

From: "Roger J. Shilcock" <mlfl@-----.UK>
Subj: Kegelstatt & the "64th notes"
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 1994 04:20:23 -0400

(This is an aside on the letters of D. Leeson & J. Winick - if there is
anything later, I haven't looked at it yet).
I have played this, before an expert audience but not a paying one. The problem
for all three players here boils down to playing these notes evenly & without
secondary stress resulting from technical difficulties - it really spoils the
whole work if these notes come out "lumpy," which is what everyone has in mind,
I suppose. The problem we found was that the players tend naturally to pick up
the manner of playing these notes from one another, in the natural
near-unconscious give and take of the chamber music ambience. So if anyone
(usually, but not necessarily, the clarinet) gets it wrong, eventually everyone
does.
By the way, in the edition we used, there is an impossible ">" (decr. hairpin)
somewhere in the middle movement for the piano (!!) - I forget the edition and
just where it was.
Roger Shilcock [MLFL]