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Mahlers arr. of Beethoven works

Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2010-11-02 21:57

We are doing arrangements of Leonore Overture and Beethoven 3rd Symphony, doing that one in Carnegie Hall in two weeks, arranged by Mahler to commemorate his 100th Birth Year. Today we rehearsed the overture, all his arrangement does in the wind parts is double a few loud parts, it that really an arrangement? It's the same thing for the 3rd symphony, we just double the loud stuff but he adds an Eb clarinet, making 5 clarinets. I hope it doesn't double the horn solos in the scherzo. I can't understand how an arrangement is just doubling the wind parts, we used to do that all the time years ago but no one took credit for "arranging" it. When we used to work with Stokowski many years ago he would "arrange" the doubling parts too but he would write in some of the string parts in our parts to double them in certain passages, made our doubling parts a bit more interesting instead of just playing the loud parts. He would even have us double some of the softer passages for tone color. Can't wait to rehearse the 3rd and hear what Mahler does with the Eb clarinet. We do that on Saturday for the first time. Beethoven and Eb clarinet, I don't know about that. Even Stoky didn't do that. ESP http://eddiesclarinet.com

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