Klarinet Archive - Posting 000316.txt from 2008/01

From: "Kevin Fay" <kevin.fay.home@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Mendelssohn and C clarinets
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:13:07 -0500

Daniel Leeson posted re Strauss:

<<<About 15 years ago, I played basset horn in a performance of Richard
Strauss' "Happy Workshop." The piece calls for 5 clarinet players, 2 of
whom play B-flat clarinet, 1 who plays C clarinet, plus basset horn and bass
clarinet (separate players). Wonderful piece.>>>

Yes, it is.

<<<Two years later we played the other Strauss work called, "The Invalid's
Workshop," a much more difficult work using A clarinets and an A bass.>>>

Huh??

How is the invalid's more difficult? I think happy is harder.

. . . perhaps only for the bass clarinetist, but then only if they weren't
using the proper A bass, I think.

Other than that, I think the Happy Workshop is a more difficult piece.

(IMHO of course.)

Both are masterpieces.

kjf

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