Klarinet Archive - Posting 000504.txt from 2005/06

From: "Margaret Thornhill" <clarinetstudio@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Schubert
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 11:47:19 -0400

David Niethamer wrote:

<20 years ago I made my own transcription, working form the complete
Schubert edition and a viola edition published by Schirmer. >

I'd love to see/hear your transcription. I'm sure it's very good.

<First of all, I think Bellison was on the right track to find good
music for his students to play, since, especially at that time, good
repertoire was limited, and some of it unknown.>

Actually, Bellison's arrangement sounds wonderful on the clarinet, and my
problem is not with the transposition of the piano part--it's that so little
of it is left.

<One of the problems with playing this piece on clarinet is that there
are not enough places to breathe. >

That's true enough. But if the published Barenreiter part were for A
clarinet, at least we would be starting with a workable key signature, and a
reasonably sonorous one, all more in keeping with 19th century clarinet
music.

There's still at least one recording of this sonata on arpeggione available
on CD.

Margaret Thornhill

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