Klarinet Archive - Posting 000502.txt from 1997/09

From: njs5@-----.uk (Nick Shackleton)
Subj: Re: Brahms 2nd Sonata question
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 11:52:15 -0400

You can hear on record Keith Puddy play them on Muhlfeld's own clarinet with
absolutely beautiful piano playing on the piano in Meiningen.
>As I've said before on this list, it would be interesting to hear (or
>play!) these sonatas with the type of piano Brahms expected to be used,
>which would have had clearer (down DL) bass notes.
>Roger Shilcock
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>On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Frank Garcia wrote:
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>> Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 05:34:18 +0600
>> From: Frank Garcia <fgarcia@-----.edu>
>> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.us
>> To: klarinet@-----.us
>> Subject: Brahms 2nd Sonata question
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>> I have a question regarding the 2nd movement of the Brahms 2nd Sonata.
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>> The first third of the movement is marked Allegro appassionato. The middle
>> section is marked Sostenuto. Then back to Tempo I. In rehearsing this
>> movement with my pianist, she had posed a question that I could not answer.
>> She wished to know if there is as relationship between the Allegro tempo
>> and the Sostenuto tempo.
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>> Her interpretation of the Sostenuto section is a little faster than usually
>> performed, but I like the way she plays it. The problem is, she wishes to
>> relate the two different tempos somehow. I have always thought (prehaps
>> nievely) that the Sostenuto was completely new music and should be treated
>> as such. But, it is the piano alone that establishes the tempo in the
>> Sostenuto section. Any thoughts on this subject would be very much
>> appreciated by both of us.
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>> Thanks in advance. I hope those of us who are "back to school" are having a
>> stress-free time getting into the swing of things.
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>> Frank
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