MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus
Concerto for clarinet and orchestra in A major K 622 (reduction for clarinet and piano)
I. Allegro
Tadayoshi Takeda, guest professor
Javier Olmeda Noguera, student
Antonio Ortiz, accompanying pianist
After the performance of the complete first movement of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto, the professor asks the student if he has played it with an orchestra for an audition and recommends that when he performs it, he should always imagine the full orchestra even when playing with piano accompaniment, and feel the different harmonies. He compares it to Mozart’s operas, in particular The Magic Flute, and should consider this operatic character when playing.
Takeda provides comments on the meter and phrasing (feeling it in two), tuning, connection with the piano, using more color changes depending on the changes in harmony, character and feelings that the music describes at certain moments, dynamics, tempo, rhythms and breathing, among other musical aspects.
Language: Japanese-English (simultaneous translation)
