Klarinet Archive - Posting 000174.txt from 2007/02

From: Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Reginald Kell
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 19:14:59 -0500

Tony Pay wrote:
> What intrigues me is that as far as I know, no-one who has listened to
> it and commented here or on the Bulletin Board has hitherto mentioned
> what I find the most surprising thing about it: namely that Kell not
> only plays all three pieces on the Bb -- I suppose Stravinsky does
> say, 'PREFERABLY' Clarinet in A -- but that he goes on to TRANSPOSE
> the first up an additional semitone. I find it hard to think that
> Stravinsky would have approved of that.

Were the pieces recorded together in one take? That might have
something to do with the choice of Bb only.

The transposition you mention (I haven't heard it) is weird, and makes
me wonder if there was some strange technical thing going on to do with
the early recording process.

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