Klarinet Archive - Posting 000595.txt from 1997/04

From: "Lorne G. Buick" <lgbuick@-----.net>
Subj: RE: A and Bb in chamber works [was: Zemlinsky Trio]
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 17:48:23 -0400

It depends whether you consider the Dvorak Serenade chamber music... (I'm
playing it tonight with the Newfoundland Sinfonia) Incidentally (pursuant
to the old discussion of switching instruments etc.) the second clarinet
has a luxurious 14 bars of slow 4/4 to warm up the A (after two movements
on Bb), but the 1st has to start the big solo right off with one of (at
least potentially) one of the worst intervals on the instrument (eek,
almost said "horn" there ;-), open G (often flat) to long C (chronically
sharp)...

> Those are two that come to mind. But as near as I can figure, both clarinets
> were not used in the same chamber music piece until the modern era, since
> I can't think of any pre-modern example of this.
>
> Rob Teitelbaum
> Claremont McKenna College

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