Klarinet Archive - Posting 000260.txt from 1999/11

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] Weber Concertino
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 14:32:55 -0500

On Mon, 8 Nov 1999 01:02:21 +0100, rstein@-----.nl said:

[snip]

> Of course you are a professional player, at least I think so, and so
> this piece must be a very easy one to you. Not really one, I think you
> or, for that sake, any other professional would use, if you or he
> really wanted to show off.

Well, I have to say that on a period clarinet, it ain't so easy as all
that. One of the things about playing on 9-keyed clarinets is that it
forces a re-interpretation of these 'virtuoso' works, that as you say
aren't a big deal on the modern clarinet.

> But I was very eager to hear the piu lento that you apparently think
> shouldn't be there, and -- it did not come.

You mean, I didn't play it as lento as you wanted. But, I suggest, I
did play it piu' lento.

> But from your comment I understand you recognize the passage I mean,
> but have it without the solo clarinette voice,

I don't understand this.

> and also without the piu lento indication.

...though I understand this.

What do you mean, I have it without the solo clarinette voice?

[snip introducing your Dutch clarinettist]

> So I said to him, that having heard his interpretation of it, I was
> afraid I could not come up to his standards in particularly the piu
> lento.

But this passage isn't particularly difficult, at any tempo. If you had
wanted to play it slower, why wouldn't you have done?

> After this "audition" it has been only twice I heard the Saint-Saens
> sonata, once played by an amateur in radio, the other time I don't
> remember any more who was the clarinettist, but I have heard the
> concertino a couple of times, and nearly always missed this piu lento.

You mean still, you wanted it slower?

> Sometimes there was a lot of music after the con fuoco and before the
> 6/8 meter, and now I realize that must have been the orchestral part,
> that has no solo clarinet where I expect the clarinet to show the
> beauty of clarinet playing in all its glory.

I still don't understand. I've never heard anything that isn't what is
printed in the score at that point. Sometimes it's slower, sometimes
faster, but the music is still the same.

> Maybe after these remarks you will look less hateful at what I said.

Well, I didn't look at it hatefully. I was surprised at what you said,
it's true.

> Another excuse may be, that I was driving during the time I listened
> to your interpretation of the work: I didn't notice there was a slow
> intermezzo (when looking at the piano reduction without the soloist
> part I can imagine the piu lento should be interpreted as rather
> fast).

I don't understand this bit either.

Anyway, best wishes,

Tony
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