Klarinet Archive - Posting 000237.txt from 1998/06

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: Chamber music with bass clarinet
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 1998 20:06:33 -0400

> From: MX%"klarinet@-----.93
> Subj: [kl] Re: Chamber music with bass clarinet

> 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:

There is a quintet for bass clarinet and string quartet of
York Bowen. I donated a manuscript copy to the clarinet
archives. Tough piece.

>
> >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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Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
Rosanne Leeson, Los Altos, California
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