Klarinet Archive - Posting 000048.txt from 2006/06

From: Dan Sutherland <dan.sutherland@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Bar 111 in K361 again
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 22:42:56 -0400

At 07:44 PM 08/06/2006, you wrote:
>I just went on Amazon.com, found the record and listened to
>several of the tracks. Very beautifully played, but either the
>2nd clarinet has a slow tongue, or else he was told to play the
>third variation alberti bass by slurring it all. I shouldn't
>complain. I can't play that part as written, and damn few
>clarinet players can.

Well, yesterday evening, the Edmonton Symphony played the Adagio and
Theme and Variations movements as part of their Mozart celebration
series and the second player tongued every note of the alberti bass
in that variation. Yeah me! The crime in that performance was the
absence of Basset Horns.

Some other Dan [One of the damn [damned] few]

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