moorski's pictures at an exhibition is originally a piano work and it was arranged by several other famous musicians composers the most famous version being that of Maurice Ravel there's also a very interesting orchestration by the great conductor stovsky which is quite different from the Revel version and worth listening to in the Revel version the sixth movement or sixth picture is entitled Samuel Goldenberg and Schmo and this painting depicts two Jews one rather rotund and one rather thin rvel orchestrates this in a very interesting way this is not a true double Bas solely in the sense
that it's only the bases but the bases have a very prominent role here and it's Unison string plane uh most of the other strings are written in their lower registers the Bas is actually written in as higher Reg register as this could be written and it's in five flats which makes it difficult and the rhythmic complexities here are what are really make this excerpt difficult I'm going to play it first without a metronome and then follow that with a performance with the metronome so that you can hear exactly how these rhythms are delineated in a
very objective sense because using the metronome does not allow for any leeway and tempo [Music] now I'll play this with the metronome the metronome is on 65 to the e8th note [Music] a [Music] [Music] as I said there are a lot of rhythmic complexities in this excerpt so let's discuss what those are the very first note is a 302nd note followed by an eighth note when the theme comes back later in the movement in its lowest register that pickup now is a 16th note I'll demonstrate the the lower register version [Music] [Music] this is not
often asked for on auditions but sometimes it is and it's a good idea for people to ask this version on auditions because there are some differences and it's good to know how well someone plays this in the lower register as well as the upper register there a lot of places here where you have to play three against two and I'll turn the metronome on again to demonstrate one of those [Music] places and that's it so you have to do this so [Music] very important that you be able to play that accurately some of the dynamic
issues in this are important to talk about the beginning starts on a B flat and goes to an f and The Logical way to do that is OB viously and that works it works well most people do that and it there's nothing wrong with it I like the sound of the G string note better it's stronger it's more of the same tone as the [Music] F either way works you have to the the obvious vious ly the shift makes it a little more difficult to do it on the G string then this is followed by
64th notes now A Triplet 16th note triplet group and that takes place within two eth notes so one 2 [Music] now 16th notes 1 2 3 right here you need to retake the [Music] bow and that a that I just played has a DOT on top of it and that's important too to make sure you get that articulation [Music] correct if it didn't have a dot it would sound like [Music] this but because it has the the dot on top of it [Music] [Music] 16 that's a particularly hard note to play because it's so long
it's an up bow and it's Forte so you have to make sure you save your bow for that and really smooth that out to now comes what's probably the hardest part of this excerpt which is the B flat to F [Music] again those are 64th note triplets now these [Music] notes which can also be played across the [Music] string and then the next [Music] group and those can also be played across the [Music] string I like all of it on the G string it's a little easier to negotiate you don't have that awkward string Crossing
[Music] so when you make that decision make sure that you are doing it with a metronome on obviously that time I perform that was twice as slow as it goes in the last version that's in the lower octave here's the fingering that I like which is staying on the a [Music] string as opposed to going over to the D [Music] string you have that big color change [Music] there now some people use two bows on that d flat I just played I like using one bow the downbeat of the next bar is a sportando on
an e and I actually enjoy playing that with an upow because it feels so good to to dig in on that and nail it so [Music] D [Music] string again D [Music] string and if you're really adventurous going up the D string it's fun it's dangerous it's a reason to live to play this piece for
