Klarinet Archive - Posting 000321.txt from 1999/09

From: GrabnerWG@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Reger sonatas
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 08:44:08 -0400

In a message dated 9/10/99 6:35:18 AM Central Daylight Time,
dnietham@-----.edu writes:

<<
>Sonata in Bb, Op. 107
>This work is the longest and best sonata of Reger, monumental in clarinet
>repertoire. Phrases are generally long, requiring great endurance,
>especially in the slow movement. The ensemble is the greatest performance
>problem.

This sonata is **very** long - and I remember it being very obtuse,
musically. There was a wonderful recording from Marlboro of David Singer
and Rudolph Serkin, which I heard a long time ago. A search of something
like CDNow might turn it up on CD - just don't know. >>

I performed this piece a number of years ago. It requires a tremendous amount
of study, nothing is easy and obvious in this piece.

Don't even attempt this piece unless you have the colaboration of an
excellent pianist. This piece requires the same level of musicality and
expression as the Brahms Sonatas.

This is NOT a solo with accompaniment, but in reality a piece of chamber
music music.

I personally found the piece rewarding, very worthy of the time and effort to
learn and interpret it.

Walter Grabner
who is now looking for the tape of that performance.............

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