Klarinet Archive - Posting 000292.txt from 2006/10

From: <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Tchaikovsky 6th Question
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 13:39:38 -0400

The score I have shows those four notes in the bassoon part. I'd never heard
that it was originally supposed to be a bass clarinet, but if it was it must
have been Tchaikowsky who changed it, since it got into the printed editions
of the score and parts.

I just heard the Philadelphia Orchestra perform it. They used a bass
clarinet, as they did the last time I heard them play it a couple of seasons
ago. This time (I don't remember about the other) Eschenbach returned to a
tradition the orchestra had pretty much left after Ormandy retired in the
early 1980s and doubled all the wind parts, so the bass clarinet doubled 2nd
clarinet for the rest of the symphony.

Karl Krelove

From: Jim Lytthans <lytthans@-----.net>
Date: 2006/10/19 Thu AM 11:02:26 CDT
To: "Klarinet Digest (Mail)" <klarinet@-----.org>
Subject: [kl] Tchaikovsky 6th Question

I have a question regarding the use of bass clarinet in the Tchaikovsky
"Pathetique". symphony. We're doing it on the next concert, and I have
played it many times. I remember the bass clarinet, not the bassoon,
playing the last four notes in measure 160, at the end of the clarinet solo,
just before the Allegro Vivo in the 1st movement. Several recordings I have
of the work use bass clarinet also, but I can't seem to locate a bass part.
I know the four notes in question are an easy substitution, but I can't see
the player sitting on stage for just four notes. Any suggestions?

Jim Lytthans
Anaheim, CA

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