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Re: New Mahler Editions from Breitkoph

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2018-09-27 00:29

For the three pieces I've ever played in my lifetime that called for D clarinet (Le Sacre, Till and a Schoenberg piece, though I've forgotten which) I've never been able to justify the cost of a D. I did play the Schoenberg on a D clarinet borrowed for the occasion from the Philadelphia Orchestra. The Stravinsky and Strauss are so routinely played on Eb clarinets that I don't feel intensely guilty. If I had a D clarinet available, even at some inconvenience, I would borrow it for those as well.

As I've mentioned, the Philadelphia Orchestra owns a D clarinet (as it also, I think, owns C clarinets for its players' use, which wasn't the case in the 1950s through the '70s). If I played in an orchestra that owned a D, I would certainly use it when it's called for.

But there is, to refer back to the start of this thread, a great deal more in the literature for C clarinet and much more opportunity to use it than there is for a D.

Karl

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