Author: Tony Pay ★2017
Date: 2018-09-25 06:51
>> But I don't find fault with Breitkopf's publishing transposed C clarinet parts for those who are going to play a C part on a Bb.>>
No, neither do I. But I do find fault with Klose's ignorant opinions about the qualities of C clarinets.
William points out that it's its own instrument – as many composers including Mahler and particularly, Strauss, realised. Klose does a disservice to the musical world in this, and he (or she, how would we know?) deserves condemnation for it.
>> It beats passing a part to the next user with letter names (some inevitably incorrect) scribbled over every note. >>
I don't encounter this in my professional work. However, I do still encounter here, when I bother to look again, Klose's incorrect and still uncorrected transposition of the clarinet part of Beethoven's violin concerto slow movement:
http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=461485&t=461455
A small story: as the newly appointed principal clarinet in the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, I had occasion in 1969 to play in a recording of a Donizetti Opera, 'Roberto Devereux'. There was an Italian vocal coach whose job it was to look after the singers' Italian pronunciation, and so on, and in the orchestra I'd taken it upon myself to play the C clarinet parts on the appropriate instrument, which was a very unusual move at the time in England.
I began to warm the instrument up, and the vocal coach looked round, then hurried into the orchestra. "Clarinetto in Do!!" he exclaimed. "Complimenti!!"
Some people understand.
Tony
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