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Re: Interesting Stravinsky quote

Author: Tony Pay ★2017
Date: 2007-02-03 15:00

Lelia wrote:

>> Do the liner notes of the recording (which I don't have) specify that Kell used a Bb clarinet and transposed part of the music? The reason I ask is that the process of recording and then pressing the disks can bend the pitch up or down quite a lot. Some genius in the studio may have monkeyed around.>>

I think not. It's certainly a transposition, because you can hear the distinctive tone-colours of the various clarinet notes -- so that, for example, the first phrase is Bb/C/A/D/G. (You can also pick out throat Bbs, and the lowest note played is F rather than E, a timbral difference quite obvious to a clarinet player.)

The recordings are also orginally LPs, so we're talking new technology for the 1950s.

I have some more to say about the whole collection of performances, but I'll do that in a separate thread sometime.

Tony

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