Klarinet Archive - Posting 000164.txt from 2000/06

From: "Emily S" <harvinet@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] K. 622 reconstruction
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 18:07:04 -0400

Sounds like a great idea, but wouldn't the higher notes, comfortable range
on the basset, have a thinner sound? Even the best bass clarinet players
can have a pretty thin sound once it gets into the clarion register.

Well, you heard it. What would you say?

>From: "Doug Sears" <dsears@-----.net>
>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>To: <klarinet@-----.org>
>Subject: [kl] K. 622 reconstruction
>Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 11:16:44 -0700
>
>I got quite a turn last night. I was listening to the Mozart concerto on a
>public radio broadcast, and the announcer said it had been the Vienna Phil.
>at
>the Salzburg Festival, Mehta conducting, and the soloist was Ernst
>Ottensamer,
>"playing a reconstruction of the concerto for bass clarinet attributed to
>Franz
>Geigling". My mind started racing -- what an idea this Geigling had! Basset
>clts
>are hard to find, so you just play it up an octave on an A bass clarinet
>(or up
>a major seventh on a Bb bass clt, if you're a real hero), making it easy to
>play
>all those original low basset notes.
>
>After finding out that Franz Giegling edited (or somehow had his name on)
>the
>NMA basset reconstruction, I decided I was just a victim of sloppy
>announcing:
>bass clarinet -> basset clarinet
>attributed to -> edited by
>Geigling -> Giegling
>
>I did notice one odd thing: in the 3rd mvt, mm.311-313, Ottensamer played
>it in
>the lower octave, but without the low c! (i.e., [I'm leaving out the upper
>c's]
>agfefg rather than agfecg).
>
> --Doug
>----------------------------
>Doug Sears dsears@-----.org/~dsears
>
>
>
>
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