{"id":7558,"date":"2020-09-28T15:03:49","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T13:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/blog\/lockdown-tape-60\/"},"modified":"2022-03-02T12:18:23","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T11:18:23","slug":"lockdown-tape-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/blog\/lockdown-tape-60\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockdown Tape #60"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Georges Aperghis<\/strong> \u2013 Damespiel<\/em> (2011)\u00a0for bass clarinet<\/p>\n

Carl Rosman, bass clarinet<\/p>\n

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Georges Aperghis<\/strong>‘ bass clarinet solo Damespiel<\/em> was commissioned by the Ensemble Musikfabrik, supported by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and dedicated to Carl Rosman<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The title comes from the German for the board game which some of us call draughts and some of us call checkers. Perhaps there\u2019s the vaguest hint of a play on words connecting the title to the music in the manner in which the closing minutes have a low-voiced instrument pretending for quite some time to be a high-voiced one. But perhaps not. <\/em><\/p>\n

The piece first arrived with lots of octave signs for the last couple of pages, which the publisher was kind enough to fix for me: on the one hand I can\u2019t stand octave signs on the clarinet (the fingerings in one octave have nothing to do with the fingerings in another, it\u2019s not like a piano where you just move your hand a bit to the right), on the other the spare leger lines are an excellent home for the shorthand I use to remind me what my fingers need to do. <\/em><\/p>\n

For once, there isn\u2019t a particularly enlightening story concerning the genesis of this piece. Georges had wanted to write me a solo for a while; the ensemble had the possibility of commissioning a round of solos for all the members; I told Georges; the piece arrived; I played it. He\u2019s been writing solo pieces for the clarinet longer than I\u2019ve been playing it, so he didn\u2019t particularly need me to show him what a clarinet can do. So there\u2019s nothing particularly newsworthy about the collaboration\u2014except perhaps the very fact that it doesn\u2019t consist of copious dialogue about specificities of the instrument. It\u2019s entirely appropriate that I\u2019ve only just become aware of what Georges said two years ago about the process in an interview with Martina Seeber for BR<\/a>: <\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a strange sort of collaboration. He receives the music and works on his part\u2026 and when he\u2019s ready, he sends me a recording. I leave him to work on his own, and every time the result is perfect.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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