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Re: Spohr concerto 2 full score

Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2013-09-13 03:08

#3 is certainly available somewhere. I have a wonderful LP of it from 1951, so the score and parts were available at least that long ago. It was played by Fritz Hammerla, an otherwise unknown clarinetist, with Eugen Jochum conducting the Lintz Bruckner Orchestra. Unfortunately, it's pitched 1/2 step too high, but my variable speed turntable can bring it down to 440. If it's available nowhere else, Stanley Drucker will have or know where to get the parts, which he used to play it with various orchestras.

Michael Bryant says that the name Hammerla is almost undoubtedly a pseudonym, adopted by a top player under contract to another label. You can hear it at http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=9.80960. However, you must get a non-US identity. It may be possible to order a CD through Amazon-UK.

My fingers were never as fast as Tony's, so I mentioned my own difficulties with the rips in the first movement of #2. All the concertos have very difficult arpeggiated passages with wide skips.

Ken Shaw

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