Klarinet Archive - Posting 000155.txt from 2009/11

From: Martin Baxter <martinbaxter1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Music for Clarinet and Voice (Soprano)
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:17:41 -0500

There is a very pleasant Ave Maria by Cherubini and Spohr's Six Songs to consider.
I also heard in a recital by this combination one of the Mendelssohn songs for two female voices with the mezzo-soprano replaced by clarinet. It worked surprisingly well.
I also once performed several of the Morley 2 voice madrigals with a soprano, taking the lower line on bassoon. Clarinet would have been an anachronism but I bet it would have worked as well or better. Incidentally the anachronism is purely in using the clarinet; these works were and are often performed with voice and instrument . When you think of it it is just as anachronistic to use a modern steel-strung violin as it is to use a clarinet, but that does not seem to bother people half as much.
I think Peters still publish the complete set and it should not be too expensive, It is worth having to use as technically simple but musically demanding instrumental duets,
Martin

On 18 Nov 2009, at 21:12, Lyle Smith wrote:

> I know Vaughan-Williams wrote some vocalises for soprano and clarinet.
> Of course there is also Shepherd on the Rock by Schubert. They're all
> pretty tonal I'm sure ;-)
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