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RE: weber clarinet concerto No2

Author: ted
Date: 1999-03-17 02:44

This concerto is one of my favorites. It's a very "showy" piece. Make a bold atatement from the beginning; the first eight bars are double forte and firm. The first movement exposes bad intonation in the throat register, so make sure you have good support when in that register. Make sure that when you're in the sections with repeated sixteenth notes, that it doesn't sound like an exercise (accenting the beat), but rather as several longer phrases. there are several places where you tongue from low E to high F. These should be super clean. since the ochestra is playing there, you can even slow the runs down if you have to. The second mevement os very operatic. Treat it as if you are an opera singer. I've heard the third movement played at many speeds by different performers all of whom played t very well. As long as it's light and bouncy, it can still be very musical at the slower tempo.

It's difficult and very rewarding, both for the performer and the audience. Of pieces I've played it's probably an 8.5 technically. I found it more difficult than the Mozart, about as difficult as Debussy's Premiere Rhapsody (but in a diffferent way), and not as difficut as Rossini's Intro Theme and Variations. I have the music to concertos that seem much more difficult than these, but haven't gotten the courage to tackle them yet. Walter Boyekens and Sharon Kam have excellant recordings of the Weber Concerti.

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