Klarinet Archive - Posting 000017.txt from 2005/04

From: Oliver Seely <oseely@-----.edu>
Subj: [kl] Re: Beethoven Opus 20.
Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 02:20:04 -0500

It's a lovely piece. Fun to play, not too challenging and a shame that it=
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is so difficult to get 7 live players together at the same time and place.

My Penzel-Mueller played like a dream. I think I'll switch for a while --=
=20
maybe take my Buffet in for a tune-up.

The 5th movement, Scherzo, has a beguiling section around measure 100=20
(measure 194 in my MIDI file) where the bassoon emerges with an amusing=20
counterpoint to the second strain of the waltz or l=E4ndler. I heard a=20
commercial recording of the piece recently in which the bassoon wasn't=20
sufficiently amplified to come through. It was such a disappointment, I=20
thought, because that one section grabs the listener and doesn't let=20
go: the bassoon plays its descending and ascending beep, beep, beep while=
=20
the strings offer the lilting serenade. Then one gets a double pleasure=20
when the section is repeated.

Oliver

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