Klarinet Archive - Posting 000187.txt from 2006/09

From: Sean Osborn <feanor33@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] "best" concerto
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 18:51:35 -0400

Glenn,

Nice list, though inaccurate.

Adams, Mendelssohn, Bruch, and Stravinsky have all written clarinet concertos.

I also forgot to add Richard Strauss and Leonard Bernstein to my list of
clarinet-but-not-violin concerto writers.

Additionally, Vieuxtemp, Paganini, and Wieniawski are violinist composers
who wrote showpieces for the violin, but little else, and compositionally
are essentially hacks. That is why I left both Heinrich and Carl Baermann
off of my list of non-violin writers, because they are the clarinet version
of Vieux, Pag, and Wien.

And, isn't Harty a little obscure? I had to look him up because I'd never
heard of him.

Point taken though, and bravo for assembling the list! Are these just off
the top of your head, and are you a violin concerto fan?

And, I'd never heard of the concertos by Schumann and Schoenberg - I wonder
why noone plays them. Are they as bad as the Rimsky-Korsakov Clarinet
concerto?

Sean

>Adams, Berg, Bloch, Britten, Bruch, Coleridge-Taylor, Elgar, Glass,
>Glauvunov, Harty, Khachaturian, Korngold, Lalo, Ligeti, Mendelssohn,
>Paganini, Prokofiev, Reger, Saint-Saens, Schnittke, Schoenberg, Schumann,
>Sessions, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Szymanowsky, Tschaikovsky, Vieuxtemps,
>Walton, Wieniawski
>
>Glenn B Kantor (GBK)

www.osbornmusic.com

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