Klarinet Archive - Posting 000090.txt from 1994/07

From: Jeff Berman <jberman@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Brahms "Concerto"???
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 1994 10:48:52 -0400

>I was browsing in the Stanford University music library
>yesterday on a lunch break from a historic dance workshop.
>I noticed in a section of scores of clarinet concertos
>a spine that read "Opus 120 No. 1". I at first assumed
>it was be a misshelved copy of that deservedly familiar
>sonata, so I pulled it out. It turned out to be an
>orchestral score of an arrangement of the Brahms sonata
>done by Luciano Berio a few years ago!
>
>Has anyone heard this arrangement?

This is a rather amazing orchestration, that cleverly sounds like a Brahms
symphony!! My teacher has an old recording of it, I think by the Chicago
with Larry Combs? he got off the radio-- it is rather nice. I'll see if I
can find out more about the recording.

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Jeff Berman
Pulmonary Immunologist Extraordinaire &
Amateur Clarinetist Who Shouldn't Quit His Day Job
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