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作者: hschen@phyast.pitt.edu (Hsuan-Yi Chen)
標題: 來自 hschen@phyast.pitt.edu (Hsuan-Yi Chen)
時間: Thu Feb 25 05:09:42 1999
Life in Pittsburgh gets pretty unattractive. There are no
articles from Dan Leeson or Tony Pay on the klarinet list.
This is when I show up here and look for some fun......
Oops! No people are talking about "harder reeds", "better
tone", "better performance of Brahms clarinet sonatas"......
I will create one subject of my own, and this one is not
related to acoustics.
By the way, David Shiffrin gave a nice recording on Brahms
clarinet sonata plus Schumann Fantasy pieces op73. Harold
Wright and Peter Serkin (son of Rudolf) also provide a
performance on the same repertoire but with a much more
emphasized piano part. I love Peter Serkin on piano, his live
performance in Pittsburgh one year ago was stunning.
If anyone wants to find those recording on Brahms, it's better
to try Amazon, don't try local CD stores.
I want to talk about Bach, from an amateur clarinet player's
point of view, knowing that clarinet was in its infancy in
Bach's year and he did not compose a piece for clarinet.
The following is a suite of 3 stories, their contrast form a nice
piece with life in my memory.
1. clarinet and Bach
My ex-roommate told me that the sound of clarinet does not
belong to baroque music. He simply put it in this way:"playing
Bach on clarinet is funny".
2. saxophone and Bach
A saxophone player told Tony that he (she?) thought Bach as
a composer who write the most important work in music. Tony was
impressed by the appreciation of this person. Then this person
added "so, a beginner of saxophone should start from playing
Bach".
3. clarinet and Bach
I play some Bach, at times, because my clarinet teacher forces
me to do so. I don't play Bach in front of a musician if I have
a choice. One day I played an etude adapted from his French Suite,
my teacher told me this and that, and then that and this, then he
said "I think you played well, it's just lack of......"
"Imagination?" I added. My brain was empty while playing that
piece, I admitted.
He smiled, said that he played Bach cello suite in a church.
Many of his students love the music of Bach and some even would like
to play it in their recital. "I think it is not something for us
to play in front of other musicians, though. The string players
have Bach in their brain since they were kids and breath and eat
with the music of Bach. We practice Bach occasionally, it is good,
but I will not play Bach in New York and let the critics rip
me off."
I will not forget his smile. Of course I am still playing
music of Bach.
%%Tony said that he would like to listen Karl Leister playing Bach
cello suite.
I guess I do, too. I wonder how to deal with many subtle
problems when
playing music for strings on a clarinet, especially Bach.
The above stories are meant to share with Tony, and who would love
to enjoy some music of Bach "privately" from time to time.
Hsuan-Yi Chen
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