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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2016-09-24 18:19
In 2nd Mvt Bax Clarinet Sonata - 1 measure before 25 beat 2 it makes a lot more sense using a Bb instead of the B Natural. There are Bb's in beat 3 and 4
Anyone knowing the piece also see that?
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Author: John Peacock
Date: 2016-09-26 01:39
The 2nd and 3rd bars of Figure 25 are different: one has B naturals with written accidentals (but only in the clarinet part - not in the score), but the next has explicit flats, even though the first half of the bars are otherwise identical. So if you play what's written, then the bars either side of 25 have the same B natural becoming B flat pattern - don't you think having that alternation twice makes some sort of sense? Of the 3 recordings I have access to, Janet Hilton and Charles West play it as written, but John Bradbury changes the bar before 25 in the way you suggest. The harmonies are strange enough that neither alternative sounds more obviously right than the other. Since at least one bar seems to ask for B natural, it's not clear there's a strong case for change.
Great piece: good luck before 28!
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Author: cigleris
Date: 2016-09-26 14:16
Robert Plane's version ranks with Tony's in my opinion
Peter Cigleris
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Author: Tony Pay ★2017
Date: 2016-09-26 15:29
>> Robert Plane's version ranks with Tony's in my opinion >>
Interesting that you should think that, because I don't have a version...
In the mid-70s I did once play it with Ian Brown for a BBC studio recording, and I suppose that David might somehow have that (I don't). Either that, or he's mistaken that the version he has is by me.
I remember the recording for an amusing (to me) reason: it happened to be rebroadcast as a repeat a few years later, and I came in on it without knowing who was playing. I remember thinking, that's not bad, I wonder who it is? So I looked it up in the Radio Times, and it was me!
The amusing bit is that when I knew that, I immediately began to notice what I DIDN'T like about it...
Tony
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Author: cigleris
Date: 2016-09-26 23:37
Tony,
My apologies I also wrongly assumed it was you with the Nash. I've quite a few recordings of the work and it's easy to get confused especially when the CD is not to hand.
I would love to hear your broadcast, possibly available from the BBC archive?
Peter Cigleris
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Author: cigleris
Date: 2016-09-26 23:38
For what it's worth David I've always played a Bb in that bar
Peter Cigleris
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