Klarinet Archive - Posting 000047.txt from 2011/02

From: Jenny Hublin <jhublin@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Clarinet Solo with Band?
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 22:00:24 -0500


There is also a Concerto for clarinet and wind ensemble by Rimsky Korsakov. It would definitely qualify as lyrical, and it's full of cadenzas. Here are some notes I found on the piece:

"As inspector of the Russian Navy's bands during the 1870s, Rimsky-Korsakov was inspired to teach himself the rudiments of the brass and woodwind instruments. By his own account, he was an execrable player, but he did gain a sufficiently thorough understanding of the instruments to write three concertos for solo brass or woodwind and wind orchestra. He did it in part, he wrote, "to teach myself to handle a style of virtuosity till then unknown to me with solos, cadenzas, tuttis, etc." The last of these three works was the clarinet concerto. In rehearsal with the Kronstadt naval band, he decided the accompaniment was too heavy, so he withdrew the piece, and it was never performed in his lifetime. A tiny concerto at only about seven minutes long, the work nevertheless falls into the standard three movements, played without interruption. The Allegro moderato employs folk-like themes, but these sing out only in the dark-hued band accompaniment with the soloist's part twirling, spinning, and taking wide leaps no Russian folksinger would attempt. The Andante begins with a fragmentary cadenza based on the first movement's main theme, then proceeds with a lyrical tune over a gently oom-pah accompaniment; the movement would fit naturally into any ballet of the period. The finale, Allegro moderato, emerges from another, slightly more extended cadenza and revisits material from the first movement, now cast as a lilting waltz. "

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> From: mcranis@-----.net
> Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 20:02:07 -0500
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> Subject: Re: [kl] Clarinet Solo with Band?
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> Thanks!
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> You should be able to hear it here. If not, just plug in "Clarinet on the
> Town Recordings" to a search engine and it should pull up a bunch of
> different places to hear it. It's a Ralph Hermann piece (I think one of the
> items that came up in a search also said Artie Shaw).
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