To me this piece is often played too fast. It needs a direction in phrasing and calm finish from the finish of the fast part slurs to the longer phrasing part.
I took a BMus degree on the clarinet without the university ever having supplied a clarinet teacher. And I was forced by the head of the music department to battle my way through Brahms two clarinet sonatas which I hate to this very day. I destroyed the music of these sonatas the day I graduated. What a waste of golden time.
To me this piece is often played too fast. It needs a direction in phrasing and calm finish from the finish of the fast part slurs to the longer phrasing part.
I took a BMus degree on the clarinet without the university ever having supplied a clarinet teacher. And I was forced by the head of the music department to battle my way through Brahms two clarinet sonatas which I hate to this very day. I destroyed the music of these sonatas the day I graduated. What a waste of golden time.