Klarinet Archive - Posting 000614.txt from 1998/06

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] Brahms Quintet
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 21:48:04 -0400

> From: MX%"klarinet@-----.24
> Subj: [kl] Brahms Quintet

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> I am thinking about buying the music for the Brahms Clarinet Quintet
> with piano reduction. Before I do I would like to know if this piece
> sounds OK with piano or is this one which should really only be
> performed with the strings. I have been told that the Mozart Quintet
> is regarded favourably with piano. I would have thought a good
> pianist should be able to be a resonable substitute for a string
> quartet. At least he/she could get all the notes in unlike in an
> orchestral reduction.
>
> Del Sizemore
>
> sizemod@-----.au

The choice of doing a work as glorious as the Brahms Quintet with
piano, or not doing it at all in the absence of a string quartet
is always a difficult one. I think you should do the work and get
experience at it even if accompanied by accordions. But the texture
will be so very much altered by piano accompaniment that what you
will play is a very pale echo of the work. Now how is that for
ponderously stating the obvious.

Of particular difficulty will be the second movement with all of
its gypsy nuances. But I wish you well in any event.

I don't know if the Brahms is available in a piano reduction so
it is not as if I were speaking about having heard the work in this
altered form.

I am curious to know who said that the Mozart quintet with piano
is a favorable combination (not exactly what you said, but close)?
Such an opinion needs something more than an assertion of quality,
don't you think?

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Rosanne Leeson, Los Altos, California
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