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Author: Ed Lowry
Date: 2011-02-22 23:41
Rummaging through my vinyl collection, I pulled out Respighi's Feste Romane and The Pines of Rome (Cleveland Orchestra - Lorin Maazel) 1977 London Records CS 7043.
The jacket notes by John Davidson state, with respect to Feste Romane, "The work is scored for 3 flutes and piccolo, 2 oboes, English horn, one low clarinet in D, 2 clarinets in B flat, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 4 trumpets, 3 trombones ... [etc.]."
A misprint on the low clarinet in D, or is it actually scored for a clarinet I'm not familiar with? I'm sure someone on this list has played the piece.
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Author: Clarimeister
Date: 2011-02-23 00:56
Possibly a misprint. Though I'm only going off what I see on the score at IMSLP. It only lists 2 clarinets in Bb and Bass clarinet in Bb. Weird.
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Author: elmo lewis
Date: 2011-02-23 15:48
Don't trust record jackets. In Feste Romane it's a piccolo clarinet in D, like an eefer, not a low clarinet.
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Author: Ed Lowry
Date: 2011-02-23 17:56
elmo: makes sense. I wish I had a D (piccolo) clarinet. Or a D bass clarinet, for that matter. It would make a heck of a conversation starter.
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2011-02-23 18:12
I do have a D bass.
Others say it's just an Alto that is awfully flat. Pff!
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Ben
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Author: Simon Aldrich
Date: 2011-02-24 21:19
"I wish I had a D (piccolo) clarinet. Or a D bass clarinet, for that matter. It would make a heck of a conversation starter."
If you had a D piccolo clarinet it would do more than start conversations, it would save you hundreds of hours of pointless practising. The last time we did Daphnis, I lent my D clarinet to the Eb player. The treacherous passages at the beginning of the 2nd Suite are so easy on D clarinet that she didn't even need to practise them. I brought the D clarinet to rehs and the concerts and she essentially sightread the noodles at the beginning.
Simon
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Author: davyd
Date: 2011-02-24 23:24
I'd like to have a bass clarinet in C, for all those times when there's no bass clarinet part, but there's a bass clef part that needs covering or reinforcing.
What I'd really like to have is an omnitonic clarinet -- swap out a barrel or something and hey presto - I've got a clarinet in Db or G or whatever would make a passage "easiest", kind of like the nonvalved brass instruments with all their different crooks.
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