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Author: wjk
Date: 2003-04-22 16:00
We all know the "famous" clarinet quintets by Brahms, Weber.....
Are there any other "less famous" but deserving clarinet quintet pieces?
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Author: Tom Piercy
Date: 2003-04-22 16:37
Here are a few less famous and deserving quintets:
(I believe most of these are in the database listed above.)
There are many more out there.
Adolphe,Bruce
At The Still Point, There the Dance Is
Bliss, Arthur
Quintet
Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel
Quintett in A Major
Diamond, David
Quintet
Herrmann, Bernard
Souvenirs de Voyage
Porter, Quincy
Quintet
Reger, Max
Quintett in A Major, Op. 146
Wallach, Joelle
Quintet
Zwilich, Ellen Taaffe
Quintet
Tom Piercy
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Author: Lori
Date: 2003-04-22 17:36
Here's one I didn't see in the database: "Turning Points" by Joan Tower. I tried to read it with a string quartet last summer. Very difficult.
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Author: Gregory Smith ★2017
Date: 2003-04-23 02:15
I have yet to find as interesting and satisfying a quintet as the Sir Arthur Bliss. If you're a sucker for the English Romantic Pastorale style, this one is for you. There are two wonderful recordings that are now perhaps defunct:
De Peyer/Melos Ensemble and the earlier Thurston/Griller Quartet (orig. 78RPM) - which may be reissued on CD now.
You need a really dedicated and interested string quartet to perform this work well with much rehearsal time set aside. The times I've performed it here in Chicago and around the country at other music festivals and chamber music series, it has been a real crowd pleaser. A piece with lot's of depth - also quite entertaining to play.
Gregory Smith
Post Edited (2003-04-23 03:16)
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Author: graham
Date: 2003-04-23 08:12
The Krehl is excellent. There is a recording (coupled with the Brahms) which is also very good. By a Frenchman on an original instrument. Can't remember the details, but if anyone interested I can get the disc out and post the details.
The Howells Rhapsody is also a gem. The Bliss has been mentioned; it is fabulous and very difficult. The Gordon Jacob is one of his very best efforts, rather difficult in places but not so much from the point of view of keeping it all together. Thea King recorded it on Hyperion.
Worth trying the Somervelle (you need both A and B flat for this).
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Author: D Dow
Date: 2003-04-23 15:13
The Reger Quintet is a fantastic piece, and having performed it can say it is one of the finest romatic works written ....
David Dow
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Author: Ed
Date: 2003-04-23 16:39
I did the Coleridge-Taylor last year and it is a great work. Very enjoyable for the musicians and the audience. There is also a work by Corigliano- Soliloquy, which I think is a reduction from the slow movement of his concerto. Drucker and Schifrin have both recorded it.
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