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Re: Bass Clarinet part in Gershwin's Piano Concerto

Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2016-05-28 16:39

I guess there's a lot of great players here. There is a few measures of Triplets that the bass clarinet plays in the first movement, first by the bass clarinet and then the clarinet plays under a piano passage. When the pianist takes it at a fast tempo, as many do, it can be very challenging. The first time I played it when I began with the Baltmore Symphony I didn't realize how fast it was, an eye opener for sure. Unfortunatly when we recorded it you can hardly hear it because they mic the piano up so much that everything in the "background"gets somewhat damped out. That's a problem with most concerto recording, especially piano. In any case, yes, buy the books. By the way, I've been asked before, the triplets are three slurred and three slurred not separated, good thing too. :-)

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