Klarinet Archive - Posting 000420.txt from 2010/09

From: Tony Pay <tony.p@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Mozart Concerto
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:38:55 -0400

On 14 Sep 2010, at 21:09, Jennifer Jones wrote:

> On another subject, I was playing with your 'magic diminuendo' the
> other day with the second mvt of Brahms second sonata. It seems to me
> that it is helpful in playing the espressivo just after the swell in
> the jump from A to F (fifth bar, third line of page 16 imslp simrock
> copy). That espressivo seems to require a gentleness (and therefore
> an underlying steadiness), which is helped by keeping the breathing
> muscles tensed in opposition to one-another. Does this make sense to
> you?

Absolutely, it does:-)

It also means that you can pick out the Bb to varying degrees and with varying tonecolours when you want, without seeming to accentuate it.

Tony
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