Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2014-08-25 04:18
Most orchestra players do that all the time in any given passage. Some more that others. There are "traditional" solos that just about everyone plays on the opposite clarinet. As far as Eb and D go, many orchestra players don't own a D clarinet so they play all those D parts on an Eb clarinet and I doubt anyone listening will know the difference. Sometimes it's a matter of being practical. When I used to play the 3rd clarinet part in Mahler's 5th, Bb, A, bass and some D parts as well. Because the D parts were not exposed but doubled in ensemble I just played the D parts on my Bb clarinet instead of bringing my Eb since I never owned a D anyway. I won't have done that had it been an exposed solo, but then again, the Eb player in our orchesta would have been required to play it. In the Strauss Alpine Symphony the bass clarinet part has more C clarinet than Bass. Since I don't own a C clarinet I just transposed the part on my Bb, which turned out to be tough on my lip since it was a very high part and I had to practice it a lot. No one in my section, or the conductor ever noticed that I was not using a different clarinet than was written. I used a slightly more "brilliant" sounding reed to sound a little more like a C clarinet since I had several exposed places as well as a lot of tutti and ensemble sections. I don't think anyone in the audience was disturbed, or even gave it a second thought.
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