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Author: hgp_atx
Date: 2015-08-26 06:19
I was just wondering what some of the best modern clarinet orchestral or band solos are in y'all's opinion.
Thanks,
Hugh Pauwels
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Author: davyd
Date: 2015-08-26 07:18
Do you mean works featuring a solo player, or solo passages within works? How recent does something have to be to qualify as "modern"?
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Author: hgp_atx
Date: 2015-08-26 08:42
Solo passages within works is what I was referring to and anything modern being post 1950s.
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Author: tylerleecutts
Date: 2015-08-30 07:03
Blue Shades for wind ensemble, and another piece called "Snake in the Garden". Black Dog can also be played with wind ensemble or orchestra, as well as X Concerto.
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Author: clarinetist04
Date: 2015-08-31 15:38
There's a part of Ingolf Dahl's Sinfonietta that is a tutti clarinet section solo. There's a clarinet cadenza in Aegean Festival Overture by Andreas Makris. Two of the more fun pieces to play, in my opinion, are Rocky Point Holiday (Ron Nelson) and Armenian Dances (Part I, by Alfred Reed) but they're not solos, per se, just fun clarinet parts that sit well on the instrument, more or less.
In the concerto repertoire one of my favorites is the John Heins Concerto. As David said, Hardy Mertens is also good and any of Scott McAllister's works tend to be heavy on clarinet (if not practically concertos, as are Black Dog and X).
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