Klarinet Archive - Posting 000408.txt from 2003/11

From: "David Glenn" <maestrodavidglenn@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] mozart requiem
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 16:45:10 -0500

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>> doing the Kyrie on A clarinets. Had a fleeting thought of doing it on
>> the basset horn ... ;-)
>>
>
>Interesting locale, Eichstetten/Kaiserstuhl. I have visited it on a
>number of occasions because my wife's family is from that village. To
>make sure I have it right, it is about 30-45 minutes from the French
>border, and the Kaiserstuhl is visible from Freiburg, right??
>
>As for the use of A clarinets in the Kyrie fugue, why? There are no key
>complications when playing it on basset horn. The Sanctus definitely
>has a key complication requiring basset horns in F to play in written A
>major, a definite no no. But there is no reason to use anything but
>basset horns for the Kyrie. What is the issue that makes you feel that
>such an instrument change is needed?
>
>Dan
>>
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Hi Dan,

Yes, Eichstetten is near Freiburg. I've never travelled from Eichstetten to the French border but I would guess it would take about half an hour taking the small roads around the Kaiserstuhl, yes.

Sometimes we go up to the mountaintop called Hochblauen which is near Kandern where we live. From there, when the weather allows we look to the north and can see parts of Freiburg (about 35-40 km as the bird flies). Looking to the left of Freiburg, we can see the Kaiserstuhl. To the left of that are the Vosges mountains and the Rhine with its side canal. Looking south, we see parts of Basel and sometimes, rarely, we can see all the way to the Alps! (ca. 150-200 km). We can make out Eiger, Moench and Jungfrau. That was a short geography lesson!

About the Kyrie: I'm sorry to not have been clear. I meant the extra Kyrie in D minor not belonging to the Requiem which Mozart wrote in Munich a few years earlier. I thought about saving myself the intonation problem of changing from A to basset when we start the Requiem on those exposed tones. But don't worry, we played the Kyrie on A clarinets and then changed to bassets for the Requiem.

About the three sharps in the Sanctus: how did that happen?! Is that Sussmayer's fault??

The cathedral was so full that many had to stand. It went quite well. I so love to play the basset horn! And then that music!

Best,
David

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