Klarinet Archive - Posting 000193.txt from 1995/05

From: Josias Associates <josassoc@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: A bizarre oddity
Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 05:45:36 -0400

On Thu, 4 May 1995, Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu wrote:

> I'm looking for a clarinet quintet (i.e., clarinet and string quartet)
> for a chamber music party I'm invited to and as I looked through my
> stuff, I came across one that I bought years and years ago but never
> played. I think I bought it for the wrong reason.
>
> It is the Hindemith quintet and I bought it because one movement was
> scored for E-flat clarinet and all the others regular soprano clarinet.
> But as I was looking it over for serious consideration, something about
> the first and last movements piqued my curiosity.
>
> I looked, and looked, and looked and finally discovered the the first
> movement is the last movement, backwards (or maybe it is the other way
> round - it's hard to tell), and it is backwards for all 5 players.
>
> I think I'll give it a whack!
>
> Has anyone every played the York Bowen quintet for bass clarinet and
> string quartet? Interested to hear if someone things it to be a
> quality piece.
>
>
> ====================================
> Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
> (leeson@-----.edu)
> ====================================
>
Dan,

You're right about the first and last movements of the Hindemith,
which are mirror images of each other or possibly upside-down mirror images
-- I don't quite remember. Very bizarre.

I do remember that the Landler movement -- the second one --
which is for Eb clarinet, is interesting. (I think there's a commercial
recording of the quintet in existence with Dieter Kloecker [sp.?] on
clarinet.)

Connie

Conrad Josias
La Canada, California