Klarinet Archive - Posting 000002.txt from 2005/10

From: HILARY NICHOLLS <hilarynicholls@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] romantic/early 20th clarinet/piano recommendations?
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 14:25:32 -0400

Hi Nathan
Sopmeone else knows about these BUswoni pieces -
greetings
I am learning the Andantino, Barcarole and Elegia
at the moment
I wish they were better known

--- Nathan Friedman <nathanfriedman@-----.ca> wrote:

> 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
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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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