Klarinet Archive - Posting 000950.txt from 1998/12

From: "Fernando Silveira" <fersilv@-----.br>
Subj: Re: [kl] Rye: [Al] Bartok "Contrasts"
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 04:19:31 -0500

Mr. Alan Damiens, from France, has a terrific record.

All the best

Fernando
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Fernando Silveira
Principal Clarinet - National Symphony - Brazil
Clarinet Professor - Rio de Janeiro University
fersilv@-----.br
(55)(21) 716-2248
-----Mensagem original-----
De: Carl Schexnayder <carlsche@-----.net>
Para: klarinet@-----.org>; Teri Herel
<CmdrHerel@-----.com>
Data: Quinta-feira, 24 de Dezembro de 1998 22:39
Assunto: Re: [kl] Rye: [Al] Bartok "Contrasts"

>Hi:
>What recordings of this work would people on the list recommend?
>
>Carl Schexnayder
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: David B. Niethamer <dnietham@-----.edu>
>To: klarinet@-----.org>; Teri Herel
><CmdrHerel@-----.com>
>Date: Wednesday, December 23, 1998 9:44 PM
>Subject: [kl] Rye: [Al] Bartok "Contrasts"
>
>
>>On 12/22/98 10:07 AM, Teri Here wrote:
>>
>>>What I'm interested in is hearing any and all comments on this wonderful
>work
>>>from anyone who's performed it!
>>
>>I played this last summer for the 11th or 12th time since the first time
>>in Grad School. Great piece, and I think I'm starting to learn to play it!
>>
>>I play the first two mvts. on A, the last entirely on Bb. I spent a lot
>>of time thinking about the dilemma here. Bartok seems to have wanted the
>>darker, more mysterious color of the A clarinet for the middle section,
>>but a reliable clarinet change to A for the middle, and even worse, a
>>**VERY** quick return to the By for the end was not possible for me.
>>Making the change made a longer break between the sections than the music
>>seemed to warrant.
>>
>>2nd mvt. - see if you can convince the violinist to play the first phrase
>>without vibrato. Most of them will balk, but if they do it, and you get
>>the balance exactly right, the sound (IMHO) is hair-raising. Listen very
>>carefully to who is "on top" - play with a little more expression when
>>you're on top, and a little less "color" when you're the harmony voice.
>>Wonderful movement.
>>
>>A couple of weeks ago, in some context now forgotten, I gave a favorite
>>fingering for the G4 grace not to the Ab4 (repeated several times). Her
>>it is again, for convenience sake:
>>
>> *G* *Ab*
>>
>> R R
>> T O T O
>> X X
>> X X
>> _ _
>> X X F#/C#
>> X X
>> O O
>> Ab/Eb
>>
>>You have to **TRADE** pinkies on this - if you leave the Ab/Eb pinky in
>>place, nothing will happen. Properly done, this fingering gives an
>>aggressive snap to the grace note that makes this passage scream in a
>>wonderful way.
>>
>>HTH
>>
>>David
>>
>>David Niethamer
>>Principal Clarinet, Richmond Symphony
>>dnietham@-----.edu
>>http://members.aol.com/dbnclar1/
>>
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