Klarinet Archive - Posting 000293.txt from 2006/10

From: "Keith Bowen" <bowenk@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Tchaikovsky 6th Question
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 14:00:47 -0400

Likewise - mine is the Eulenberg score. It makes no mention of bass clarinet
(or of double winds!) in the score, nor in the preamble, either. The
autograph still exists in the Glinka museum, Moscow. He didn't have a lot of
time to change it, as he died twelve days after it was performed, and it was
published posthumously.

Keith Bowen

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> 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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