Author: Klose ★2017
Date: 2016-09-26 22:24
In several recent performance of Berlin Phil, they all played Beethoven No.9 in B and A clarinets. I guess if top orchestras accept the fact that C clarinet is not really necessary, then there is really no need to argue we must play Beethoven 1, 5 and 9 using C clarinet for certain part (also Schubert Great etc.). Besides, new synthetic reeds make the quick change much easier because we now can have two almost same mouthpiece-reed-ligature setups for both instruments and there is no need to warm up the reeds. dorjepismo wrote:
> Like the idea of playing things on the instruments they were
> written for, but as a matter of practical aesthetics, a lot
> depends on how different one's C, if one owns a C, sounds from
> the Bb. Some makers seem to try to make the different pitches
> sound as close as possible, and others glory in the different
> tone colors. It used to be a macho thing to play everything on
> Bb, hence the low Eb keys; a respectable British player told me
> he used to do that with "Contrasts."
>
> The analogy with trumpets is apt. The principals in Berlin
> seem to play nearly everything on the same instruments, even
> though Strauss, Mahler and Brukner frequently specified Ds, Bbs
> and other pitched trumpets for the different sound qualities.
> It was singular that in the recent concert John Adams
> conducted, the principal was playing a small trumpet--I'd guess
> an F, but it might have been something else. Adams probably
> insisted, which the others, being dead, can't really do
> anymore. Don't know that I would have heard the difference,
> though; the bore looked nearly the same, and it sounds great
> whatever they play.
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