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Re: back to basics - throat Bb to C

Author: seabreeze
Date: 2020-07-15 22:23

Kalman Opperman's Modern Daily Studies for Clarinet Book I has some good practice material for equalizing intervals over the break. One of the best music excerpts to practice for this is from Kent Kennan's clarinet transcription of the Sergei Prokofieff Sonata, Op 94 (originally for violin or flute). In movement III, the Andante, (page 13) measures 56-73 are a challenging workout in throat to clarion playing--so much so that the transcriber wrote a footnote for these bars to be played "8va ad lib . . . for players who wish to avoid an extended passage in the break." Of course you would want to perfect that extended passage rather than avoid it! Unfortunately Kennan's transcription seems now to be available only in a rather expensive "print on demand" edition. Larry Combs recorded an excellent performance of the Kennan transcription on CD some years ago that demonstrates the evenness across registers we are all looking for. Listen to Combs play the long series of intervals smoothly here, from timestamp 2:18 to 3:00, approximately measures 56-73.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Sf1so3CfldU.

Post Edited (2020-07-17 21:31)

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