Klarinet Archive - Posting 000331.txt from 2004/09

From: Robert Howe <arehow@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Heckelphone part
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 17:44:16 -0400

on 9/18/04 4:15 PM, klarinet-digest-help@-----.org at
klarinet-digest-help@-----.org wrote:
> many of you probably know
> about the very high unison passage (top note is A concert) for A clarinet,
> Bb clarinet, and D (piccolo) clarinet in (I think) Domestica which has the
> delightful note "nicht grell" ("not shrill")! The intonation problems must
> be formidable in performance.

Strauss was a bear on the wind players, no? But this passage is apparently
apocryphal. Looking at the score some ALMOST THAT BADs are at:
rehearsal number 133, 110, A and D clarinets of a concert G
97, A and D clarinets on a concert F#
72, D, A, and first Bb clarinet all on a concert high E
55, A clarinet to optional high C, D clarinet to G, all this is a concert A

> I have read the Eulenberg edition "pocket score" to Alpine Symphony
> several times while simultaneously listening to it on vinyl, and here's
> where my surprise comes. To the best of my recollection, the score I read
> did not have a heckelphone part. In the one live performance I heard, only a
> few years ago, no heckelphone was used either.

I assure you the heckelphone part is legit in the Alpine, having done it
enough times. It does exceeed the lower range of the instrument in three
places, giving low G and F. I suspect these (unison) passages were written
that way to show the shape of the phrase, as is the low F# for the violins
in the piece he wrote at 80, for strings, the name of which I cannot now
recall.

Ciao

Robert Howe

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