Klarinet Archive - Posting 000638.txt from 2002/05

From: "Joseph Wakeling" <joseph.wakeling@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Coleridge-Taylor Clarinet Quintet
Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 12:12:51 -0400

> I read somewhere that Charles Stanford (SC-T's
> teacher or composition) showed SC-T the Brahms
> Quintet, and told him to go write his own, but not
> to make it sound exactly like the Brahms.

It's in the Cambridge Companion to the Clarinet - Stanford, having heard the
Brahms quintet, challenged all his students to write a similar work.
Coleridge-Taylor's ended up being played by Mühlfield!

It must have been the Harold Wright recording that I heard on the radio
about 2 years ago. I've been trying to track the parts down ever since and
reading the reference in the Cambridge companion reminded me.

-- Joe

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