Klarinet Archive - Posting 000017.txt from 2010/06

From: "Williams, Kathy" <Kathy.Williams@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Mozart and staccato
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:54:12 -0400

Hi

In my understanding, and this comes from studying the piece for 20 years, and as I indicated in my recording, I prefer more articulation than I heard in the Brymer recording. I base this understanding having listened to the other woodwind concertos by Mozart, the oboe, bassoon and flute, which have a lot of articulation in them. I just wished to encourage discussion on the topic, to hear other points of view. One of my favourite recordings would have to be the Michael Collins recording on the same CD as his Beethoven 'clarinet' concerto. I just feel that clarinettists shy away from using staccato sometimes because of the belief that tone suffers (and here, I mean myself a decade ago) . However, in my opinion, one of the challenges of clarinet playing, and woodwind playing as well, to get the staccato tone the same as the legato tone, therefore using articulation in the Mozart should not be an issue.

Kind regards

Kathy Williams
Customer Service Delivery Consultant
Customer Service Delivery
Customer Care, Telstra Enterprise and Government
Telstra Corporation Limited 1800 025 222

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