Klarinet Archive - Posting 000500.txt from 2010/09

From: Tony Pay <tony.p@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Mozart Concerto
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 07:26:46 -0400


On 19 Sep 2010, at 08:23, Jennifer Jones wrote:

> 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. 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.
>
> I like floating that Bb.

Bb is a pivotal note in the movement, and especially in that passage. There are 4 of them, all different.

Tony
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