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Author: studioline
Date: 2004-09-03 22:32
I'm looking for some notes on two pieces, I've only had a very quick browse on the net, so forgive me, but has anyone any pointers to info on:
Giampieri's Variations on Carnival of Venice
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Paul Pierne's Andante-Scherzo
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Stu
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Author: RAMman
Date: 2004-09-03 23:15
You lazy so and so Stuart!!
Carnival of Venice...based on a theme by English composer Sir Julius Benedict...called The Brides of Venice.
Giampieri is just one of many composers who has built a virtuosic show piece on it..the French horn version is particularly well known.
For the Pierne....you're on your own!!
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Author: Kevin
Date: 2004-09-04 00:59
In the program notes of Martin Powell's CD, 'son et lumiere', it is stated that the theme on which 'The Carnival of Venice' is built comes from an old Venetian tune called 'O Mamma Mia'. Paganini wrote a set of variations on this theme and named the set The Carnival of Venice in 1829. Alamiro Giampieri was another composer to have written variations on it.
I'm not sure which account is more accurate, the one in the Powell CD or RAMman's; so you may have to do some more research.
Post Edited (2004-09-04 01:00)
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Author: theclarinetist
Date: 2004-09-04 02:15
The following is found in Victoria Soames's "Solos de Concours":
"Paul Pierne wrote Andante-Scherzo for 'mon ami Perier" in 1931... Andante-Scherzo contains in its three pages much idiomatic writing for the clarinet and is a joy to play. Pierne received a further commission from the Conservatoire in 1920 and produced a rather lengthy piece entitled 'Bucolique'" - Pamela Weston 1995.
It isn't much, but something.
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Author: BobD
Date: 2004-09-04 14:02
hmmm.....have never heard "Carnival" done on clarinet. Any recommendations of recordings?
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Author: SGTClarinet_7
Date: 2004-09-06 05:30
BobD wrote:
> hmmm.....have never heard "Carnival" done on clarinet. Any
> recommendations of recordings?
Robert Springs cd Dragon's Tongue has a great version. It also has a great version of him playing Flight Of the Bumblebee.
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Author: donald
Date: 2004-09-06 06:13
there is a Cd called "Il Carnivale Di Venezia" with Eduard Brunner playing very nicely (he can be a bit bright and edgy for some, but here "it's all good" so to speak).
he plays the Giampieri variations on Carnival of Venice
Tudor 728
also has one of the rare versions of the Cimarosa Concerto in C min played on Clarinet (instead of Oboe) plus the Rossini Variations in C (not the better known "intro, theme and variations")
keep playing the good tunes
donald
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Author: huggles
Date: 2004-09-25 03:48
il carnivale di venezia is such a pretty piece! a bit challenging though..
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Author: george
Date: 2004-09-25 04:18
BobD wrote:
> hmmm.....have never heard "Carnival" done on clarinet. Any
> recommendations of recordings?
There's one by Emma Johnson--on a CD called "A Clarinet Celebration."
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Author: LeWhite
Date: 2004-09-26 07:27
Yeah but frankly you don't wanna touch anything with Emma on it...
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