Klarinet Archive - Posting 000254.txt from 2003/08

From: "fred.sheim" <fred.sheim@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Arnold Sonatina
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 13:50:43 -0400

Look here:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000030VH/qid=1060537774/sr=1-11/ref=sr_1_11/103-9940826-7688626?v=glance&s=classical

Fred

At 8/10/2003 01:42 PM Sunday, you wrote:
> --- Anne Lenoir <AnneLenoir@-----.net> wrote:
>
> > By the way, Tony, I have been meaning to ask you a question but keep
> > forgetting. When I was in high school, about 15 years old (in 1961), I
> > learned the Malcolm Arnold Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano. I loved the
> > piece and had forgotten that I knew the piece until it was mentioned
> > recently on the List. Lately our adult wind ensemble has been playing
> > some works of Malcolm Arnold, and I love his compositions.
> > Anyhow, I ordered the Malcolm Arnold Sonatina (It cost me $24
> > American bucks!) and enjoyed it as much as I did when I was a youngster,
> > so much that I have selected it as a piece for some of my students to
> > learn for Colorado Solo & Ensemble contest next spring.
> > Tony, do you personally have any recommendations of a particular
> > recording of this piece? Have you recorded it? I would love to purchase
> > a recording of your performance of the Sonatina.
>
>Hi Annie, sorry not to have replied sooner to this.
>
>The answer, though, is that I haven't heard any recordings of the
>Sonatina, nor
>have I made one myself. I think there is a recording by Michael Collins and
>Ian Brown as part of a Nash Ensemble disc of Arnold's music, but though it's
>probably excellent (Michael is a talented player) I can't vouch for it
>directly.
>
>I too played the piece at an early age. I remember that there used to be a
>sort of 'variety show' competition called 'Top Town' on television. (The idea
>was that different towns in England each contributed an 'act' -- a song, a
>couple of magic tricks, a short bit of stand-up comedy, and so on -- and the
>best ones competed in a television playoff.) A schoolpal and I entered the
>last movement of the Sonatina to compete to be the 'Leyton' contribution.
>
>The compere was completely gobsmacked. "Well, if you like that sort of
>thing....that's the sort of thing that you like!" was all he could come up
>with. We didn't get anywhere in the competition.
>
>I do often play the second movement as an encore, and in fact did so here in
>Siena after my recital a couple of days ago.
>
>Arnold is of course quite uncategorisable as a composer. Though I haven't
>heard it yet, I hear that a long-lost wind quintet has reappeared, proving to
>be a sombre and serious work, quite unlike the light-hearted Sea Shanties we
>all know. And of course he's always been a highly colourful character.
>
>A friend of mine, thinking to do Arnold a favour when he was Manager of the
>Philharmonia Orchestra, suggested that he might like to part-subsidise a
>concert of his music with some of the money he'd made writing for film.
>
>Arnold took offence, and my friend got thrown down the stairs of the Savage
>Club for his pains.
>
>Tony
>
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