Klarinet Archive - Posting 000234.txt from 1998/06

From: "Don Yungkurth" <clarinet@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Re: Chamber music with bass clarinet
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 1998 17:30:17 -0400

From: Martin Pergler asks:

>I've recently started doubling on bass clarinet, and will probably
>take a borrowed low-C bass to a chamber music camp. So I'm
>looking for interesting and fun chamber music involving bass clarinet.
>Any suggestions:

>Parameters:
>1. I'm more interested at the moment in music not *only* for clarinet
> ensemble, i.e. including non-clarinets. But I'd love to hear
> about exceptionally wonderful clarinet quartets involving bass too.
>2. Not too avant-garde. The place I'm going to doesn't have too many
> other people into that sort of thing.

>I already have Janacek's Mladi, and can read reasonable bassoon
>parts to practice transposition if nothing else reasonable shows up...

I can suggest two works, "Sixtuor" by Jean Francaix, for the same
instrumentation as the Janacek, ww quintet + bass clarinet, and
"Divertimento" by Alfred Uhl, for three Bb clarinets + bass clarinet.

As to your, "Not too avant-garde" parameter, these things are in the ears
of the beholder. The Francaix is typical of Francaix and has fast,
difficult sections. The most difficult for me was the rhythm in a fast 5/8
section. The Uhl probably has easier rhythms and notes and is, to me,
reminiscent of Hindemith.

Don Yungkurth (clarinet@-----.net)

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