Klarinet Archive - Posting 000242.txt from 2009/02

From: Michael Whight <michaelwhight@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Brahms quintet
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:11:25 -0500

As a matter of interest which clarinet 'should' one use for the big solo in=
the second mvt of Brahms 1?

Michael Whight

--- On Wed, 11/2/09, Jonathan Cohler <cohler@-----.org> wrote:

> From: Jonathan Cohler <cohler@-----.org>
> Subject: Re: [kl] Brahms quintet
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Date: Wednesday, 11 February, 2009, 10:06 PM
> At 4:56 PM -0600 2/10/09, Michael Nichols wrote:
> >On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Jonathan Cohler
> <cohler@-----.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Given the difficulties of
> >> moving a mouthpiece by itself, and the obvious
> problems of playing a setup
> >> that has been sitting unused for 20 minutes, this
> is the more likely
> >> scenario. [Another problem besides the reed
> sitting unused for 20 minutes is
> >> that the temperature of the air column in the
> tube will have reverted to
> >> whatever room temperature is by that point in
> time, which will make the
> >> pitch flatter as well.]
> >
> >Alright Jonathan...you've convinced me. If I ever
> have an occasion to
> >perform this piece, I'm playing the whole thing on
> the A, because the
> >one thing we I think can be pretty confident about with
> regard to
> >Brahms is that he wanted his music played in tune (even
> going so far
> >as asking Clara Schumann to retune her piano to
> Muhlfeld's clarinet).
> >
> >And I can't tolerate bad tuning, either.
> >
>=20
> Me too. Actually, I played it this summer with the Muir
> Quartet, and=20
> the hall was kind of cool space (not normally used for
> concerts), so=20
> I decided to play it all on A to avoid the intonation
> problems that=20
> would have occurred with a switch to B-flat.
>=20
> --=20
> Jonathan Cohler
> Artistic & General Director
> International Woodwind Festival
> http://iwwf.org/
> cohler@-----.org
>=20
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