Klarinet Archive - Posting 000052.txt from 2007/06

From: "David Blumberg" <blummy@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] re: least favourite part
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:25:57 -0400

From: Peter Stoll <peterstoll2000@-----.ca>
Subject: least favourite part
Message-ID: <413862.65031.qm@-----.com>

I remember a fiendishly-difficult over-the-break lick
in I think Stokowski's arrangement of Bach's Toccata
and Fugue in D minor for full (very full!) orchestra.
It's where the fugue itself starts from what I
remember. I once saw a professional orchestra on TV
playing it, when it came to the moment where the whole
clarinet section has a soli on the tune, they did a
close-up, the principal's fingers were flying, the
other players hands weren't moving!! So much for
convincing fakery. Anyone else had to tackle this
piece, is it as bad as I remember? I was in high
school, more than 6 months ago now :)

Peter

Peter Stoll
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That's a bit tricky, not too bad though (band arrangement is the same back
and forth over the break B).
Quite difficult part (if tongued) is Sorcerers Apprentice where "all h*ll
breaks loose" and the 16th triplets are tongued- easy to multiple tongue,
really hard to single tongue that quickly.
Another really hard part is the Strauss Gypsy Baron Waltz taken at a quick
tempo - not only back and forth over the break, but lots and lots of F#, G#,
A back and forth and it's a solo. Gigliotti used to tell me that it was his
"least favorite passage".
And one last one - the solo ending of the Ginastera Variaciones Concertantes
op 23 up to 6 leger line high D. Montanaro used to take over Gigliotti's
solo at the end when it approached and finished off the run.

David Blumberg
www.mytempo.com

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