Klarinet Archive - Posting 000354.txt from 2002/02

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] Mozart + high notes
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 15:26:52 -0500

On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 09:55:45 GMT, I said:

> 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.

Well, I tried, but, guess what, I found that I hadn't had time to
install it properly. So, what with wanting to listen to the effect, and
imagining the string parts, I confused myself between the two versions
and cocked the whole thing up. Partly that was because, on a period
instrument, the downward D major arpeggio is tricky, 'cause you have to
slide between the LH F# key and the LH E key to go from F# to low D
(there's no link).

I suppose I could have asked the orchestra to try it a few times 'slower
than Eddie Daniels' (have I retold that story here?), but it was towards
the end of a long day, and everyone was looking at their watches and
thinking of the train delays we have here at the moment.

So now, it's difficult. I have one more rehearsal before the concert
day, and of course I could practise it enough to make it much more
secure. I don't know what I'll do in the end. Probably I'll do just
the two bars involving high E and high G in isolation in the next
rehearsal, to see if the difference is worth it.

I do have to say that I've always found bars 91 and 92 to be very
'cheeky' in altissimo, and bars 93 and 94 a bit 'who, me?'-ish, so that
for me bars 95 and 96 are 'run away'-ish rather than climactic.

(To be continued in the presence of one or two people from the list, I
believe, though not Neil Leupold.)

Tony
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