Arnold Schönberg's Voice Recordings
Kol Nidre

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Recording date: 193-?
Duration: untimed
Description: Schoenberg rehearsing his Kol Nidre, op. 39. In English.
ASC call nos.: 190/C; 97/D; 6/R10
Publications: none

Transcription:

SCHOENBERG: Please, just trumpet, number 15. Measure 15, just trumpet. Please this is [inaudible]: Daaa da dee da daaa da. Yes?

TRUMPETER: Yes.

SCHOENBERG: Sixteenth notes, no eighth, no thirty-seconds. Yes?

TRUMPETER: Okay.

SCHOENBERG: So, now please [inaudible] also in the first and second trumpets, number 78. This is principal part. You know this [inaudible]. Yes? Bring this out. Yes? Have you number 78, first and second trumpet? Then please now, 99 the trombones. Oh yes. This I would like to hear, trombones and bass tub... and the tuba. Please, in 99, the first... the second and third beats are legato, and should be [inaudible]... let us say, quasi dolce. Yes? Not too loud. But then comes two very short staccatos. Don't make them too long please. Yes? You accompany this sung [inaudible] melody. Yes? And it's too quick to the melody. And the staccato does not mean characteristic. See.... Listen please! It serves only so that one hears better the singers. You know? And it needs very short notes, but not accented: bump bump. Yes? So then please now play 99 and 100. In 100 you have.... no only the trombones and horns, 99 and 100. Please 100, very dolce, directly dolce staccato. Yes please... One....

[MUSIC FROM SCHOENBERG: KOL NIDRE, OP. 39. MM. 99-100]

SCHOENBERG: Yes, but only the second trombone legato. From E all these four notes are legato in the second trombone. 100, yes? 100, please. 100, again.

[MUSIC FROM SCHOENBERG: KOL NIDRE, OP. 39. M. 100]