Klarinet Archive - Posting 000165.txt from 2009/04

From: "Penny Ward Marcus" <p_marcus@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Recommendation for Clarinet Duet
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:07:11 -0400

Hand stopping and correcting for pitch was certainly in widespread use
before Beethoven. The Mozart Horn Concerti couldn't have been played
without both. (When I was studying horn with Jean Rife she had me learn
them without valves along with, to understand the works and the original
sound better.)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Baxter" <martinbaxter@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 4:42 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] Recommendation for Clarinet Duet

> Dan,
> I have never been convinced that the K487 (or K496a) duets were for
> French Horns. I have heard arguments, with supplementary evidence, on
> both sides. Grove accepts the possibility that they were for
> bassethorns. They also tend to sound laboured on French horns and
> since the use of hand stopping to correct the out of tune harmonics
> was not general until Beethoven's time (according to Bate) I can't
> see that using waldhorner was Mozart's intention. Perhaps you can
> supply evidence.
> Martin
>
> On 29 Apr 2009, at 18:44, Dan Leeson wrote:
>
>> Re Martin's recommendation for clarinet duet:
>>
>> The Mozart basset horn duets he mentioned are not for basset
>> horns. They are for French horns. The can be played as duets for
>> many instruments, but they are supposed to be played by French horns.
>>
>> Dan Leeson
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Baxter"
>> <martinbaxter@-----.net>
>> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
>> Cc: "Martin Baxter" <martinbaxter@-----.net>
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 7:51 AM
>> Subject: Re: [kl] Recommendation for Clarinet Duet
>>
>>
>>> "Poker" by Perluigi Alessandrini is also worth a look. I haven't
>>> played it myself but I heard a good student duo working on it and
>>> I thought it sounded interesting; after all the repertoire for
>>> this combination is limited. Is the concert to be purely clarinet
>>> duo?
>>> If so I hope you aren't ignoring the Mozart basset horn duets;
>>> technically they are easy but there is more musical subtlety than
>>> meets the eye. I wouldn't play them all but a pleasant Serenade/
>>> Divertimento can be produced by selecting 4 or 5 of them.
>>> Martin
>>>
>>> On 29 Apr 2009, at 14:53, Thiel, Mark wrote:
>>>
>>>> I haven't played it (it's on my list of stuff to buy) but
>>>> Crosstalk by Richard Rodney Bennett looks and sounds intriguing
>>>> and I think more audience-friendly than the Poulenc. You can
>>>> kind of see the score at
>>>> http://www.freehandmusic.com/productdetail.aspx?prodid=345096
>>>> There are some sound clips of this somewhere out on the web but
>>>> I can't find them now.
>>>>
>>>> Good luck and tell us what you find,
>>>> Mark Thiel
>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>> I am looking for a recommendation for a clarinet duet, either
>>>>> (2) Bb
>>>>> or (1) Bb and (1) A) for a chamber music concert, with the
>>>>> following
>>>>> guidelines:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> . . .
>>>>>
>>>>> Shannon McNeely
>>>>>
>>>>
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