Klarinet Archive - Posting 000751.txt from 2003/05

From: "Matthew Lloyd" <Matthew@-----.uk>
Subj: [kl] Lieder transcriptions
Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 04:49:18 -0400

What about playing male voice songs on the alto or basset horn?
Erlkoenig could be spectacular!

I used to play through Winterreise when I was young and I always thought
it worked well in most cases.

Matthew

-----Original Message-----
From: David B. Niethamer [mailto:dnietham@-----.edu]
Subject: Re: [kl] Stoltzman

on 5/28/2003 2:09 PM, Elgenubi@-----.com wrote:

>has this been done much, i. e. clarinetists interpreting
>operatic arias on recordings?

This is a little different from opera arias, but Carl Baermann
transcribed 15 Schubert songs for clarinet and piano. Pamela Weston made

an edition of 6 of them for Universal (IIRC), and some of them are very
nice. I played three on my recital this past January.

Since some of them were for male voice, after listening to the original
and my recording from rehearsals, I was bothered by the change in range
from male voice to clarinet. I made a list of about 6 songs for female
voice that I want to transcribe for clarinet and piano. Really soon!!

Stoltzman and Richard Goode jointly transcribed about 10 Ives songs for
clarinet and piano. I heard the two of them play these songs at a
recital
here in Virginia, and they were stunning. Never published or recorded as

far as I know.

David

David Niethamer
dnietham@-----.edu
http://members.aol.com/dbnclar1/

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