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Re: Juilliard Woodwind Soiree

Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2007-01-25 12:41

Thanks for the review!--especially welcome since, on the Klarinet e-mail list, I've been reading with interest the thread of speculation about the woodwind dectet arrangement of the Mendelssohn octet. My husband plays violin in the original octet now and then, when he and his chamber music friends can muster enough people in a large enough living room (not ours!). I've swiped the first violin part off his music stand a couple of times and messed around with it, enviously and not too successfully.

Ken wrote,
>>First, Mendelssohn wrote the Octet for a homogeneous ensemble -- a string symphony, not a double quartet. The varying woodwind colors spoiled that character. Also, the voices are constantly handed off. >>

That's one of the things I'd wondered about. One of the glories of that piece is the first violin's spectacular, sustained passage of eighth notes that begins 43 measures before the end. Did Charles Neidich play that alone? (Circular breathing?) I'd hate to hear that passage broken up among different instruments.

Lelia
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