Klarinet Archive - Posting 000294.txt from 2005/09

From: Simeon Loring <sloring1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] romantic/early 20th clarinet/piano recommendations?
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 09:04:00 -0400

A favorite of mine (pf is not difficult) is the Ernst Krenek 1955
Suite for Clarinet and Piano.
My edition is Broude international
Simeon
On Sep 27, 2005, at 8:11 AM, Gary Smith wrote:

> know this kind of message bobs up periodically, but at the risk of
> taking the "concerto of the month club" approach, I want to ask for
> some recommendations based on "If you like x, you'll like y" kind of
> thinking. :-)
>
> I'm looking for clarinet/piano pieces (reductions are worth
> considering, too, although they're kind of second choice). I tend to
> like late Romantic/early 20th century pieces.
>
> My all-time favorites that I've worked on already, in no particular
> order, are:
>
> 5 Bagatelles - Finzi
> Fantasy Pieces Op. 73- Schumann
> Solo de Concours - Messager
> Sonata Op. 167 - C. Saint-Saens
> the Brahms sonatas - (unfortunately, I can play them, but the pianist
> I'm currently working with can't)
>
> of course, this isn't everything I've ever played, but these are to
> give you an idea of my tastes. I also like the Cavallini/Weber/Rossini
> school, to a certain extent, but find them rather wearing technically
> and not as musically mature - maybe one to a recital as a light piece
> (and then just take my lips and throw them in the nearest waste
> receptacle, where my lungs have already landed). In another direction,
> I have also enjoyed the Hindemith and the Bernstein sonatas, but again
> find a steady diet of this sort of thing wearing, and find that pieces
> like this take me as far in the direction of modernism as I want to
> go.
>
> Of course, I also love Mozart and the rest of what little true
> "classical" repertoire there is for this instrument, but I'm mainly
> looking for suggestions from the mid 1800s on, as I feel I know about
> most of the early repertoire already.
>
> Feel free to flame me for my musical tastes (those so inclined will
> need no invitation, I'm sure) - just send your suggestions along with
> it!
>
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