Klarinet Archive - Posting 000498.txt from 2010/09

From: Jennifer Jones <helen.jennifer@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Mozart Concerto
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 03:23:30 -0400

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Tony Pay <tony.p@-----.org> wrote:
> 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. =A0It 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). =A0That 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. =A0Does this make sense to
>> you?
>
> Absolutely, it does:-)
>
> It also means that you can pick out the Bb to varying degrees and with va=
rying tonecolours when you want, without seeming to accentuate it.

I like floating that Bb.
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