Klarinet Archive - Posting 001100.txt from 1999/04

From: Ben Leon <BLeon@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Music for church
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 23:04:16 -0400

Greetings!

would you have more info on the obligato part by Bach?
Publisher, etc.

Thanks.

BEN LEON

Jack Kissinger wrote:

> The question of what would be good music to use in church comes up every few
> months. Searching the archives may turn up additional suggestions, some from
> people who may no longer be on the list. I find it interesting that, this
> time around, most of the recommendations so far have tended to be solemn in
> nature rather than joyous. Someone may have already mentioned these pieces
> this time around but just in case, if you are looking for music in this vein,
> don't forget the Baermann "Adagio" or the Rachmaninov "Vocalise."
>
> One piece I've wanted to do since the first time I heard the "Messiah" (even
> before Richard Stoltzman recorded it) is "And He Shall Feed His Flock."
> Also, if you want something to do with choir, Bach wrote an oboe obligato for
> "O Sacred Head Now Wounded" that works fine with a clarinet. And speaking of
> Stoltzman, the "Pie Jesu" from Lloyd Weber's "Requiem" is another
> possibility. I've done movements (not always the slow ones) from the Mozart
> trios for clarinets and basset horn (we used a cello for the basset horn part
> -- sorry Dan, it's all we had). Our recorder quartet has done everything
> from renaissance to swing. The bottom line is, IMHO, that just about any
> well-written music can work. I remember one list member saying he had used
> the Stravinsky "Three Pieces" to great effect. (Consider: the second
> movement for a prelude, the first movement for an offertory and the last
> movement for a postlude.)
>
> Best regards,
> Jack Kissinger
> St. Louis
>
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