Klarinet Archive - Posting 000616.txt from 1999/09

From: avrahm galper <agalper@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Brahms 4th
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 04:47:57 -0400

Regarding the C clarinet part in Brahms fourth, I believe that Brahms
wanted a lighter color of clarinet for that movement.
Some of the passages on Bb might be tricky for a German clarinet.
I think that he gave a choice for either Bb or A.
If he wrote it for A, as the rest of the fourth Symphony is, no one
would consider transposing to Bb.
He simply wanted to give the player a choice. Therefore he put it in C.
At least that is what I think he had in mind.

Incidentally, an old viola player who was living in England when the
Brahms's Quintet was first performed, said that Muhlefeld played with
both an A and a Bb for the slow movement of the Quintet.
He also played with a vibrato

--
--
Avrahm Galper
CLARINET TONE TECHNIQUE AND STACCATO
CLARINET UPBEAT SCALES AND ARPEGGIOS
http://www.sneezy.org/avrahm_galper/index.html

---------------------------------------------------------------------
Unsubscribe from Klarinet, e-mail: klarinet-unsubscribe@-----.org
Subscribe to the Digest: klarinet-digest-subscribe@-----.org
Additional commands: klarinet-help@-----.org
Other problems: klarinet-owner@-----.org