Klarinet Archive - Posting 000331.txt from 2002/02

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] Mozart + high notes
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 04:55:45 -0500

On Mon, 18 Feb 2002 15:10:27 +0100, notestaff@-----.de said:

> It has bothered me for as long as I can remember that in the third
> mvt, bars 85 - 92, and especially 88, 89 and even more so bars 91 and
> 92 it screeches up to high G before reaching the high point at the end
> of the phrase so throwing the whole section out of whack. We have no
> help from the Winterthur manuscript as that has only the beginning of
> the first movement. The Allgemeine Musikalischen Zeitung (AmZ) of 1802
> mentions other passages but not this one and the contemporary
> arrangement by Schwenke takes a similar line also going up to high G.

I think that it need not screech, if you're a bit careful. However, the
passage has bothered me too, for another reason: if you play it up there
you can't get the orchestral echo-overlap of the rising thirds B-D and
E-G to sound clearly enough. The ear is too 'taken' by the clarinet to
notice what the orchestra does. And as you know, I'm keen on the
threes.

It's a good suggestion, and I'll try it this afternoon, when I happen
to have a rehearsal of the piece with AAM.

> I can't know for sure but I feel that this works better than our
> "original" 1802 version.

Don't you throw away your feeling for 'workability'. It's all you've
got. In fact, it's the only reason you're playing Mozart's concerto in
the first place.

Tony
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