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Author: graham
Date: 2004-04-16 12:22
Does anyone have any comments on this part, e.g. whether it is a good part, a very tricky part, or any other observations?
Thanks
Graham
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2004-04-16 13:58
Concerto in F? Nice part, not difficult, some nice harmony lines with the Bb clarinets in the slow movement (played a bit "bluesy"). Fun piece.
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Author: Wayne Thompson
Date: 2004-04-16 15:11
Excerpts are in "Symphonic Repertoire for the Bass Clarinet" by Michael Drapkin, Roncorp Publications.
This note is just in case anyone reading this wonders about bass clarinet excerpts; I just got the book and it is very, very interesting.
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Author: Someone who knows
Date: 2004-04-16 16:20
Not difficult? Hmmm. I remember a passage in the 1st movement that occasionally gets asked on auditions that ain't all that easy. Playing the 2nd movement in tune is tricky too. I guess it depends on your frame of reference.
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2004-04-16 17:05
A lot of it is familiarity with the horn, especially the intonation control --- I'm a bass clarinetist who doubles on the higher instruments (the reverse of most players) so just about anything is easier for me on bass than it would be on soprano clarinet, and the Gershwin piece wasn't a problem. But if I were to attempt, say, the Nielsen Concerto on soprano clarinet, you'd have to carry me away on a stretcher.
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Author: smcneely
Date: 2016-05-28 11:46
Does anyone have a copy of the bass clarinet part they could send me?
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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2016-05-28 16:39
I guess there's a lot of great players here. There is a few measures of Triplets that the bass clarinet plays in the first movement, first by the bass clarinet and then the clarinet plays under a piano passage. When the pianist takes it at a fast tempo, as many do, it can be very challenging. The first time I played it when I began with the Baltmore Symphony I didn't realize how fast it was, an eye opener for sure. Unfortunatly when we recorded it you can hardly hear it because they mic the piano up so much that everything in the "background"gets somewhat damped out. That's a problem with most concerto recording, especially piano. In any case, yes, buy the books. By the way, I've been asked before, the triplets are three slurred and three slurred not separated, good thing too. :-)
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