Klarinet Archive - Posting 000593.txt from 1997/04

From: Gary Young <gyoung@-----.com>
Subj: Zemlinsky Trio
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 14:29:30 -0400

We performed the Zemlinsky Trio last week, from the Simrock edition. I
assume that's the only edition; Simrock was Brahms' publisher, and Brahms
suggested that Simrock publish the trio. It's by no means a perfect
edition -- lots of discrepancies between the piano score and the cello and
clarinet parts -- and I have two corrections, a warning and one question
about it.

Correction #1: cello part, mvmt 1, bar 104 -- the two D#'s should be D
naturals

Correction #2: clar. part, mvmt 2, bar 84 -- the quarter note at the end of
the bar should not be tied to the preceding sixteenth; attack the quarter
note (compare the same pattern in the next bar)

Warning: Mvmt 2, clar. part, m. 78-- the last note in this bar is D flat
(it is unmarked but the flat is in the key signature), the first note in
the next bar is its enharmonic equivalent C#; the C# makes it tempting (for
me at least) to read the unmarked D as D natural instead of D flat (luckily
it sounds terrible that way).

Question: Mvmt 2, mm. 76-77 -- these sounded terrible when we played them
as written. I think m. 76 was probably bad intonation, but in m. 77, I
think the clarinet's 2 B naturals should perhaps be B flats -- the B
naturals are just too dissonant for this passage, even in late romantic
harmonic practice. Does anyone know? Does anyone know of any list of
corrections for the trio?

Oh, one last question: After the performance, someone asked me if it was
common for chamber music to require both A and B flat clarinets. I said I
thought it was unusual. Stravinsky aside, are there other chamber music
pieces that require both?

   
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