Ken, If you have until May 5th for B#9, put it away until after B#3. You can practice both, but I would study the 9th without the bass this week. Find all your trouble spots, listen to the symphony and watch your part go by. Put in bowings, fingerings, etc...
Nick is right, the 4th movement is a bear, but so awesome. The recit is actually the easy part of that movement. Just start playing the fugue in slow motion. Choreograph the fingers.
Listening and knowing the score as well as the conductor is my goal for all these masterworks. I feel it is important to know the music backwards and forwards... it helps to learn it under the fingers if you know "where it is going".
May the force be with you.
Brian
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04-05-2007, 11:12 AM
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