Klarinet Archive - Posting 000545.txt from 2001/10

From: Virginia Anderson <assembly1@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Eb as soprano
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 07:51:46 -0400

on 16/10/01 9:15 pm, Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay) wrote:

> Did you ever play the Schoenberg Suite op 29 for 3 clarinets, string
> trio and piano? IMO one of the most beautiful and demanding Eb parts,
> of just the nature you're talking about.
>
> There's also a very quiet thing by Webern for soprano, guitar and Eb
> clarinet that a colleague described as being "beautiful, but like
> walking on broken glass to play," and I found I agreed with that...

Yeah, I've studied those (in the way that one studies orchestral excerpts),
of course, but have never had the people together to perform them. There's
also the early Hindemith Clarinet Quintet - more bumptious, as is
Hindemith's wont, but with a nice Eb section.

Cheers,

Virginia
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