Klarinet Archive - Posting 000875.txt from 2002/10

From: notestaff@-----.de (David Glenn)
Subj: Re: [kl] Beethoven "clarinet" concerto
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 15:41:35 -0500

William Wright wrote:

>It's interesting (of course!) to read someone else's impressions of the
>identical recording.
>
>I approve of your 'zoom' metaphor; but for me, the two elements that are
>missing in the clarinet version --- and that are necessary in order to
>develop the strongest emotions buried in the violin sonata --- are (1)
>the 'biting attack' on individual notes that is possible on violin but
>not on clarinet, and (2) the loss of 'robustness' that comes from an
>occasional harmony by double stop.
>
>I wonder if we could get Itzahk Perlman or Joshua Bell, or perhaps even
>Mark O'Connor, to do a violin arrangement of K.622, and then we could
>hear if the reverse of all this is true?
>
>Cheers,
> Bill
>
>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
Bill,
There already is a viola version which was published simultaneously with
the short/normal clarinet version. There must be a recording of it
somewhere. The orchestra parts are the same, by the way.
David

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