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Author: Bob Phillips
Date: 2011-01-22 16:50
Quoting from the Preface to Breitkopf & Hartel's MR 1164, the Concerto in C-major for Clarinet and Orchestra:
According to the editor, Georgina Dobre'e...
"The concerto was written for clarinet in C, an instrument capable of the kind of agility associated more with the flute. Consequently in this edition for clarinet in B it has been thought preferable to add more slurs than would have been entirely in keeping with the practice of the period, in order to make possible the correct tempo for the music. The separate clarinet part has been edited for performance. Markings in the early editions can be seen in the piano score. ..."
Also, my earlier question about the treatment of breaking trills on tied notes is solved in that the C-part written with the Piano Reduction are NOT broken, and artifacts such as a trilled dotted half note tied (in the same measure) to a 1/4 note are absent from the C-part, the four beats taken up by a whole note.
This situation offers several paths to performance:
1.) Slur everything (almost literally) as written as provided on the Bb part --which sounds and feels really, really strange;
2.) White-out the slurs in the "performance marked" Bb part and suffer the slow-down of concern to Ms. Dobree;
3.) Buy one of them there extremely agile C clarinets, allow it to quicken my fingers and tongue and read over the shoulder of the pianist;
4.) Maybe I'll try moving little bits of slur around over the black-parts.
At any rate, I'm sure glad that I don't have to deal with one of them bigger, slower, less agile clarinets.
;-)
Bob Phillips
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Author: cigleris
Date: 2011-01-22 18:45
Bob,
Have you checked the solo flute and cello parts for the concerto? Have a look and see what is there. The parts do differ slightly but it may help in some way. The link I posted before to the IMSLP web site is of an edition possibly from the 19th C, check those parts also for any clues to the articulation.
I have to say that I've played through this on my classical C clarinet and it does l seat under the fingers well. Perhaps borrowing a C and blasting through might give you more insight.
Peter Cigleris
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Author: Bob Phillips
Date: 2011-01-22 20:01
Indeed, my feeling is that the C-version is easier, but that could just be because of the challenge of meeting all those sharps in the Bb transposition!
Bob Phillips
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