Klarinet Archive - Posting 000335.txt from 1998/08

From: "David B. Niethamer" <dnietham@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Firebird Variation (G#-A "trill")
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 21:52:20 -0400

on 8/11/98 6:09 PM, Karl Krelove wrote:

>The G#-A trill is a little awkward, but what makes it
>worse in the Weber Concertino are the grace notes customarily following the
>trill (Nachschlag), which in this case are F#-G#. I've heard more than one
>recording of the Concertino in which the clarinetist leaves the G# trill out
>(they all seem to do the F# trill that precedes it).

In one edition, where the "original text" of the clarinet part is
contained in the piano score, the G# trill is not in the music.
Presumably that's because it was hard/impossible to play on the clarinet
of that day?

David

David Niethamer
Principal Clarinet, Richmond Symphony
dnietham@-----.edu
http://members.aol.com/dbnclar1/

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