Klarinet Archive - Posting 000180.txt from 1996/05

From: Fred <fsheim@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: clarinet quintet recommendations?
Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 21:48:45 -0400

Lost the message about the coleridge-taylor quintet so ill reply here -
besides the CD on which it is recorded, I have it on a 1980 LP (Spectrum
SR-127) with Ramon Kireilis and the Lamont String Quartet playing it.

Fred (fsheim@-----.com)

>Hi Randy,
>
>The term "clarinet quintet" is used to refer to a piece for clarinet with
>string quartet. Not generally a piece with 5 clarinets. In fact
>offhand, I can't think of any original (non-arrangement or
>non-educationally-oriented) works for 5 clarinets. Of course you have no
>way of actually knowing this until someone tells you!
>
>Jacqueline Eastwood
>University of Arizona/Arizona Opera Orchestra
>eastwooj@-----.edu
>
>On Tue, 7 May 1996,
>Randy Oddi wrote:
>
>> Our clarinet choir (high school) recently performed Mozart's Adagio at
>> Florida State Solo & Ensemble Festival. We got a superior, and I really
>> enjoyed the piece. It has options as a quintet or choir, with 3 sopranos and
>> 1 alto, or 4 sopranos, and of course, 1 bass.
>> Randy Oddi
>> RO7878@-----.com
>>
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