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 Re: The fast switch from B to A Clarinet
Author: Tony Pay ★2017
Date:   2016-09-27 04:31

The idea of period performance is to try to recapture what we may have lost as a result of the development of instruments over time.

Some of that may still be sensed in modern performance by using instruments like C clarinets that have different natures, and therefore give different results from their parts transposed for Bb and A instruments.

You can say that the different natures of the early instruments don't 'carry over' to modern instruments. Well, that's true in part; but it's a matter of degree. And you can't judge the issue until you've tried it.

Most people haven't; and even those that have tried it may well not have done so in the spirit of investigation and discovery. Clearly, if you think that a modern C clarinet is necessarily 'biting' in nature, you may never be able to find its sweet side.

You don't have to have the whole orchestra change in order to make discoveries of this sort – even though, when they do, the results can be revelatory. 'Klose', whoever he is, suggests that only a thoroughgoing approach is acceptable – that we have to conform to some sort of 'authentic police' strategy.

I say not. And an increasing number of conductors, substituting earlier trumpets, horns and timpani for modern instruments in performances of classical music, agree.

Tony



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