Klarinet Archive - Posting 000625.txt from 1997/04

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: RE: Zemlinsky Trio
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 04:26:36 -0400

On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, Lord Rob wrote:

> Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 13:02:23 -0700
> From: Lord Rob <rteitelbaum@-----.EDU>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.us
> To: 'Klarinet' <klarinet@-----.us>
> Subject: RE: Zemlinsky Trio
>
> >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?
>
> Yes, there's a rather famous one that requires both: Bartok's Contrasts. Of
> course, you *could* play the first 2 movements on Bb (the edition in my
> school's music library even includes both parts, just in case), but it's far
> more difficult, IMHO. (This is, of course, the same piece that requires 2
> separate *violins*!)
>
> Also, the Hindemith Quintet requires both. Well, actually, the second
> instrument is "Klarinette in Es", which I assume is A and not C clarinet.
>
> 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
>
>
Lord Rob:L
NOOOOOO - the Hindemith needs an E FLAT clarinet - "Es" is german for "E
flat"!
Roger Shilcock