Klarinet Archive - Posting 000323.txt from 2008/01

From: Barton Cummings <cbc_21@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Contrabass Clarinet Concerti
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:01:27 -0500

Hello List,

Just to add my bit. I have a Concertino for
Contrabassoon and Winds that was premiered and
recorded by Susan Nigro.

Barton Cummings

--- Francis Firth <Francis.Firth@-----.uk> wrote:

> Dear Bear Woodson,
> The earliest contrabass clarinet concerto of which I
> am aware is:
> Landre, Guillaume: Concertante per clarinetto
> contrabasso ed orchestra.
> - Amsterdam: Donemus, 1960.
>
> I found this on the Australian Music Centre site:
> Sweet-spots : concerto for contrabass clarinet and
> ensemble / Thomas
> Reiner. -2006
> SCORE
> 1 facsimile score ([i], 25 p.) ; 21 x 30 cm.
> ISMN: M-67305-869-9
> Flute, oboe, clarinet in B flat, contrabass clarinet
> in B flat, tenor
> trombone, percussion, pipa, violin, viola,
> violoncello, double bass.
> 10 min.
> AMC Library number: 785.5219/REI 1
>
> The Norwegian clarinettist Terje Lerstad has written
> the following:
> OPUS 113 D:
> ADAGIO FOR CONTRABASS CLARINET AND CLARINET
> CHOIR(1986)
> A quite romantic adagio for contrabass clarinet and
> clarinet choir,
> where especially the sound colors in the ensemble
> are explored. The solo
> instrument has a range of 5 1/2 octaves and also
> uses special
> articulation and polyphonic techniques.
>
> There is the triple concerto by Donald Martino for
> clarinet, bass
> clarinet and contrabass clarinet where he uses the 3
> as a kind of single
> clarinet with hugely extended range but it does need
> 3 players.
>
> Of concerti for contrabassoon there is:
> Kalevi Aho Concerto for Contrabassoon - this has a
> really extended range
> but should be readily playable on contrabass
> clarinet
> Gunter Schuller Concerto for Contrabassoon
> Donald Erb Concertino for Contrabassoon
> Terje Lerstad: Concerto for Contrabassoon
> Vazgen Muradian: Contrabassoon Concerto Op. 86
> Harold Laudenslager Concertato Contra
> Ruth Gipps Leviathan for Contrabassoon and Orchestra
> (not exactly a
> concerto more of a nocturne)
> Ralph Nicholson: Impromptu for Contrabassoon and
> Orchestra
> Daniel Dorff: Concerto for Contrabassoon
> Victor Bruns: Concerto for Contrabassoon Op. 98
> Roger Smalley: Concerto for Contrabassoon, Double
> String Orchestra,
> Percussion and Harp (IV and V)
>
> There is a good list of concerti for contrabassoon
> here:
>
http://www.robertronnes.com/TheSoloContrabassoonList.html
>
> I hope that this helps.
> Francis Firth
>
>
>
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