Hi there I wonder if anyone can assist with how the 64th notes of the clarinet smear in the opening bar of this are best played on the piano.I had broken it down into using my right hand only and the way the notes fall easiest under the fingers is 1-4, 1-3, 1-4, 1-3, 1-3.I am using this as an exercise to try and practice what Mr Chang calls parallel sets because I love this piece and therefore it gives me an interest to stick with a very demanding exercise for my present ability level.I am trying to play this smoothly at half speed at the moment but I have seen it played using left and right hand which eliminates the trouble of crossing the thumb of the right hand however I can't figure out the fingering for using left and right and would be most grateful if anyone on here can advise as to the way they find it easiest to play.Thanks.
I'd just do double-handed gliss, rather than finger a chromatic scale. It's more an effect, in this piece, IMHO. Think more Jerry Lee Lewis and less Liszt, is what I'd do.
I hadn't thought of trying that, might sound good. I've played the piece most of my life and always just played a slowish ordinary scale, not too uniformly though. You could probably do a glissando with the end of 25/11 too come to think of it.
Yeah, unfortunately I have to disagree with Teds comment. The scalic passage at the end of Op 25 - 11 is clearly an a melodic minor scale ascending, complete with F and G sharps. Had it been a natural minor, I'd probably agree, but the presence of those sharps make the ending all too beautiful. A glissando would ruin it.
But to return to the original question, as the Rhapsody In Blue was reportedly conceived at the piano, might not the slur have been Ferde Grofe’s idea anyway ?