Klarinet Archive - Posting 000312.txt from 2005/09
From: Nathan Friedman <nathanfriedman@-----.ca>
Subj: Re: [kl] romantic/early 20th clarinet/piano recommendations?
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 18:54:30 -0400
Busoni also wrote a number of clarinet pieces, exactly in the genre you're
thinking of. I have an album of the pieces he wrote for clarinet and piano
between the ages of 12 and 17! Some of them are real gems.
Nathan Friedman
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From: "Gary Smith" <gary622@-----.com>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 11:26 AM
Subject: Re: [kl] romantic/early 20th clarinet/piano recommendations?
On 9/27/05, Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling@-----.net> wrote:
> Gary Smith wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Should we take this to mean you like "early 20th century pieces" or that
> you like "music written in the 20th century that still sounds basically
> Romantic"? ;-)
honestly, probably prefer music that still at least gives a nod to the
Romantic movement/school. It doesn't have to sound like Brahms (what
does?), but start going a little cold on difficult tonalities and
things the audience is going to have a lot of trouble understanding.
But I really liked the Hindemith, too. Go figure.
> Amusingly, one young and rather fêted British composer told me she
> thought I was "very brave" for admitting that I liked Elgar. :-D I also
> love Boulez, Ferneyhough, Stockhausen, Berio, Adès, Lachenmann, Carter,
> Sariaaho and plenty of others. But poor Edward is apparently a bit
> infra-dig....
>
I think it's the price of popularity. Elgar, I have noticed, is a
really large target. I stumbled across a website (can't remember the
URL) devoted largely to the topic "Why Elgar was a lousy composer and
a worse human being." Seems like a better use of time would have been
to leave him alone and study someone you like, but to each his own. I
like Elgar - too bad he didn't write a clarinet sonata, per se,
although he did write some good parts for the instruments, and one of
the themes from "In the South," IIRC, has been made into a piano
reduction/lightweight solo piece for clarinet.
Thanks very much for your suggestions.
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