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Floating line (Brahms Trio)

Author: Sylvain
Date: 2009-04-10 18:51

I am revisiting Brahms clarinet trio and am struggling with making "floating" lines.
The best example may be the opening of the Adagio where I am trying to play the first 4 bars in one long swoop.

The first two bars are the most challenging to me as there is no dynamic swelling written and I simply sound terribly "noty", and can't seem to connect the notes.
There is something similar in bar 22, although a little easier for me.

Any tips would be most welcome. On the recordings I have many players do a little crescendo into the moving notes, but I am not sure this is the answer I am looking for. I want no dynamic shape, just one long line of suspended notes until the swell in bar 3.

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Sylvain Bouix <sbouix@gmail.com>

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