Klarinet Archive - Posting 000933.txt from 1998/01

From: ROBERT HOWE <arehow@-----.net>
Subj: Re: klarinet-digest V1 #600
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 20:05:03 -0500

Boosey & Hawkes publishes an Urtext version of the Suites taken from the
composer's MS which shows the wonderful second suite, second movement
solo as being for clarinet, not oboe.

Robert Howe

> solos in the second movement. Also, Variations of a Theme by Paganini

As far as _I_ recall (having played several transcriptions and
arrangements, variations on, etc), the Second Suite fMB in Eb was
written
as an Oboe solo, not a clarinet. Several transcriptions have the option
for a clarinet solo if the oboe is nonexistant, or...well, sucks.
I'm not sure if that option was actually written in by Holst or
not...It's
quite possible; from what I've been told, he did a lot of toying and
experimenting when choosing the solo instrument. The candidates were
supposedly the oboe, cor anglais, sax, trumpet, and horn, and I've heard
it took him a long time to settle on the oboe...