Klarinet Archive - Posting 000863.txt from 2000/09

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Brahms Sonata No. 2
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 06:00:40 -0400

Bill W.,
Are you absolutely sure it's not an auditory quasi-hallucination resulting
from the tailing-off of the sound of a full-length quarter-note/crotchet?
I don't know this recording. However, a resonant room acoustic could
produce this effect anyway.
Yours,
Roger S.

On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, William Wright wrote:

> Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 02:34:59 -0700 (PDT)
> From: William Wright <Bilwright@-----.net>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Brahms Sonata No. 2
>
> <><> Tony Pay wrote:
> You mean, he holds the E to the end of the bar?
>
> Measure #2 in the first movement (Schirmer, edited by Simon) is
> printed:
>
> B/2 - E/4 - rest/8 - D/8
>
> but Leister's recording is:
>
> B/2 - dotted E/4 - D/8
>
> It's true that Leister plays the dotted E/4 diminuendo, but unless I'm
> deaf, it's definitely not a quarter note followed by a rest. I was
> assuming that this was a matter of permissible expression. I think that
> it sounds better this way -- more fluidity and motion. But I'm still at
> the 'stumbling along' stage, so perhaps I'll change my mind.
>
>
>
> <><> E3? You mean E2, surely.
>
> Perhaps I don't know what E3 means? I mean the E on the lowest
> line of the staff.
>
>
>
> <><> And usually it's the Bb that's horrible....
>
> Normally that's what my ear tells me unless I use the trill keys;
> but in this case, my E before the (printed) 1/8 rest in measure #2
> sounds miserable to me. Tomorrow morning, when the family is awake, I'm
> going to see what my tuner says. Perhaps the interval is messing me up.
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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