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Re: single tonguing

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2015-11-26 08:27

Here is something that worked as insight into the Nielsen Concerto for me only just recently.

Listen to the quintet ! This piece was written for the same musicians for whom he was to write all five concertos (only got to two). Nielsen represented the personalities of each musician with the styles they use in the quintet. It is said that the clarinet player in the group was an argumentative sort of fellow. In the quintet, you hear the clarinet part "quarreling" with the bassoon.

So by extension, the concerto is a pure representation of an angry, angst ridden personality filled with inner tensions. By contrast the flute concerto is a much calmer, happier work.

That said, I'm with you, the Nielsen Clarinet Concerto is just too frenetic for my tastes.

.............Paul Aviles

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