Klarinet Archive - Posting 000274.txt from 2003/04

From: b1rite@-----. Rite)
Subj: RE: [kl] Piccolo +Eb (was: floor hamsters)
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 00:33:31 -0400

Seriously, I don't see how piccolo + Eb would be much different than
(say) 2 Bb clarinets, which has been done many times. If you don't
like high pitched instruments, then it wouldn't work for even one
instrument, of course, much less two or three or four (EEFER CHOIR
!?!?!?) of them; but combining two different high-pitched instruments
could increase the variety of sound character a bit, which would help as
the pitch approaches the top of our hearing and perceived variety
diminishes.

I wonder if Sean Osborn is listening ??? <heh! heh!>

If you want to hear some stunning piccolo concerti, easy on the ears - I
promise you - (and one flute concerto), I recommend:

"Les Concertos Pour Flute-Piccolo", Vivaldi, Calliope CAL 6630, which is
available from B&N online among other places. I mistakenly posted that
Rampal is the soloist, but when I looked more closely, he's the
conductor. The piccolist (?) is someone named Jean-Louis Beaumadier.
This CD also has "7 Fantasies" for piccolo by Telemann.

Cheers,
Bill

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