Klarinet Archive - Posting 000667.txt from 2004/01

From: Dan Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] looking for a good chamber piece for flute, clarinet & piano.
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 12:08:19 -0500

Sue Raycraft wrote:
> Annie,
> There is an arrangement for flute, clarinet and piano
> of Mozart's Symfonie Concertante which was originally
> written for violin, viola, and orchestra. It's really a cool
> piece but rather long...of course just the first movement
> by itself might be enough?
> It was transcribed by Albert Andraud and published by
> Southern Music Publishers (San Antonio)
> Sue
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anne Lenoir" <AnneLenoir@-----.net>
> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 7:31 AM
> Subject: [kl] looking for a good chamber piece for flute, clarinet & piano.
>
>
>
>>My sister, flutist, Jane Lenoir, has invited me to perform with her in
>>San Francisco in early April with a newly formed chamber group, TPOAZ.
>>We have performed Ravel's "Introduction & Allegro" togeher back in
>>October in Palo Alto, and we are looking forward to the next concerts
>>coming in April.
>> I have been asked to play the Mozart Trio for clarinet, viola and
>>piano and the Bruch Double Concerto for clarinet, viola and string
>>orchestra. We are using a string quartet. Jane would like me to find a
>>good piece for flute, clarinet & piano. One of the concerts will be held
>>in a hospital that has a wonderful piano, so I am looking for a piece
>>that will be soothing to the spirits (and ears) of the patients in the
>>hospital. Anybody have any suggestions? I have written to Michael
>>Webster, a clarinetist who is married to a flutist. ANNIE
>>

Albert Andraud was the English hornist with the Cincinnati SO for years
and years and was there until at least 1940, maybe longer. He did many
transcriptions and published everything that came his way under the
banner of the Albert J. Andraud Wind Instrument Music Library. On his
death, Southern Music absorbed his entire collection and now publish it
under their name.

Whether his transcriptions are well or poorly done is not for me to say.
But the Sinfonie Concertante for Violin and Viola requires a soprano
voice and a very distinguishable alto voice. There are arrnagements of
the work for clarinet and bass clarinet that serve the purpose of
presenting two instruments whose voices are clearly in different
registers. My view of the transcription for flute and clarinet is that
their registers are too close to permit the distinction required. Annie
suggested that the work is too long. I think it's too short.

But like most transcriptions from orchestral form to piano form, there
is always the problem that the orchestral texture cannot be captured by
the piano. So the effects planned in the composer's head don't work
with a piano. But the work itself is so incredibly lovely that it could
be done with a kazoo and didgerydoo and still sound lovely.

--
Dan Leeson
leeson0@-----.net

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