Klarinet Archive - Posting 000007.txt from 2007/07

From: Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Reginald Kell: Part 10, Brahms Quintet, Op. 115
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 06:36:37 -0400

Tony Pay wrote:
> Of course, to play the piece even remotely successfully, a string player
> needs to be not only 'not innocent' of the clarinet line, but to know it
> intimately. And such knowingness is totally trivial to come by nowadays via
> playing along with a disc a few times; funny how people don't bother to do
> that -- see:
>
> http://test.woodwind.org/Databases/Klarinet/1998/10/000377.txt

Funny you should mention the Fantasiestücke in that email as I found the
difference between playing with and without piano is striking. For
example the high Eb in the first movement---playing alone my temptation
is to put a big rit. in, and lots of rubato. But with piano there,
suddenly the motion makes sense in tempo ...

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