Klarinet Archive - Posting 001063.txt from 2001/02

From: Bilwright@-----.net (William Wright)
Subj: Re: [kl] Landler of Mozart
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 11:35:41 -0500

<><> Oliver Seely wrote:
Does the Shifrin trio sound "rustic" to you? After the darkness of the
string quartet trio I wouldn't know how to make "rustic" work except
perhaps as an answer in kind to those deadbeat strings but in a major
key. It's wonderful. I've never thought of the third movement in those
terms.

hmmm... maybe "dark" and "rustic" are ambiguous terms...?? <<
very large smile >>

But don't you agree that Shifrin's tone is rounder and less
pretentious than the strings' tone ?? More like what you'd expect to
hear in a solitary log cabin late at night (instead of in a crowded and
brightly lit drawing room with flat walls)?

Okay, okay. I'll quit it.

Actually, the strings and clarinet trade off on melody and tempo
and rhythm so often during the minuet that my (uneducated) brain can
hear two different dances, but it cannot assign each dance to a
particular group of instruments.
However, no matter how you describe the interplay, perhaps it *is*
a mistake to analyze the entire movement according to a single standard?

Cheers,
Bill

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