Klarinet Archive - Posting 000054.txt from 2000/05

From: "Emily S" <harvinet@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Ravel's Piece en forme de Habanera
Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 18:06:40 -0400

I picked this piece up while browsing around in a music store...I've heard
lots of recordings and I absolutly love it! It's just a perfect little piece
of music, so light and airy. Reminds me of a hot, lazy summer day with
nothing to do but lie in the pool...ahhh... Anyway. It's so perfect on
clarinet, and many famous recording artists have it one on of their disks
somewhere...and most performers I've seen have used it too. I understand
that Ravel did not write it for the clarinet though. So who was it? What
instrument did Ravel score it for originally? Also, to those who have played
it, in bar 41 (roughly...my edition doesn't have bar numbers), just after
the "au mouvement", there's a passage that starts on A. In my edition it's
a throat A, but when I heard James Campbell play it on After Hours, he
played the whole passage down an octave. I like it that way and I play it
like that now. Do any other editions have it written starting on chalumeau
A, or did James Campbell just decide to do it that way?
Thanks!

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