Klarinet Archive - Posting 000701.txt from 1997/04

From: Everett Austin <austine@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Chamber Music w/B flat and A Clarinet
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 10:13:48 -0400

I read the same thing about Muehlfeld somewhere, referring to this
passage in the middle section of the slow mvt of the Brahms Quintet.

On
Tue, 22 Apr 1997, David Hughes wrote:

> Ron Monsen Wrote:
>
> > I also remember reading that Muhlfeld used the Bb
> >instrument for part of the Opus 115 quintet--anyone else remember having
> >read that about the Brahms quintet?
> >
> My International Music Co. edition of Op. 115 has mm.81-93 of the slow
> (second) movement [the hardest part of the piece, I think] written out for
> Clarinet in Bb! There's
> only 4 quarter notes to switch from A to Bb and 4 1/2 to switch back to A.
> And the transposition is no great improvement: 4 flats, but going only to
> high F.
>
> Could this be what you refer to? Personally, I think it's a lousy idea, as
> there's no time to switch mouthpieces, and as the notes aren't much easier.
> Imagine playing that passage on a cold horn with a different reed/mouthpiece!
>
> David Hughes
>
>