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Author: Liquorice
Date: 2004-01-24 14:32
I'm looking for a 5 minute "flashy" virtuoso piece to finish off a recital with. Any suggestions?
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Author: theclarinetist
Date: 2004-01-24 16:22
-Solo de Concours by Andre Messager
-The 4th movement of Time Pieces by Muczynski is very flashy and stands well alone.
Don Hite
theclarinetist@yahoo.com
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Author: donald
Date: 2004-01-24 18:30
is the Bucolique only 5min long? gee, last time i heard it played, it sure sounded longer..... at lot longer (some sarcasm intended, not directed at player)
donald
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Author: bob49t
Date: 2004-01-24 19:06
Not a virtuoso piece but just wonderful to end a recital with and to go off with the audience laughing and remembering your dexterity and self deprecating humour, even after a serious recital !!! Works for me !
"Immer Kleiner" by Adolph Schreiner - where the soloist reduces the clarinet by stages - each being placed in the case - ending up with the mouthpiece only - throwing it in the case and quickly exiting stage left !
Best preceded by a suggestion that time is of an essence as a bus/train/plane has to be caught.
If you have a smattering of humour about you, this is a cracker !!
Thank you Mr Schreiner !
BobT
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Author: bob49t
Date: 2004-01-24 20:11
Yup !
Piano accompaniment - Ludwig Music Publishing Co, Ohio (No 10440268)
Symphonic band - (no 10160144)
Full orchestra - (no 10260144)
See earlier threads on "Schreiner", "Immer Kleiner" or "Ever Smaller" or "Always Smaller"
BobT
BobT
Post Edited (2004-01-24 20:14)
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Author: Liquorice
Date: 2004-01-24 20:32
Thanks for all the suggestions. I'll check them out.
Alex- yes, the piece should be accompanied.
Thanks!
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Author: David Peacham
Date: 2004-01-24 22:24
This reminds me of the horn player Dennis Brain. There is a recording of him playing a viol piece by Marin Marais as an encore, introduced on the vinyl LP by the comment that "it's the shortest piece I know". Sadly, the comment, and the ensuing audience laughter, are absent from the CD release.
Why limit yourself to a clarinet piece? Maybe borrow something - a bit of flashy violin music, perhaps: Kreisler or Sarasate. Likely to be more fun than those awful virtuoso showpieces the Paris Conservatoire commissioned to test its students. Or go for a change of style and play some jazz.
I speak as a listener here, certainly not as a performer. Don't choose an encore that's an extension of the concert programme. Make the programme complete of itself. The encore should be a change of style, a little treat that makes the audience go smiling into the night. At the end of a meal of haute cuisine, do you long for just one more sophisticated dish? No, you'd like a square of chocolate with your coffee. If the audience can't remember afterwards which piece was the encore, then it wasn't an encore, it was part of the programme.
Of course, you mustn't break the spell. You mustn't follow the War Requiem with a medley of Abba songs. But if you end with the War Requiem, don't play an encore at all.
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Author: marcia
Date: 2004-01-24 23:30
Slighty off the topic, I attended a Vancouver Symphony Orchestra concert in which Jackie Parker (John Kimura Parker to those who prefer his formal name) played a Beethoven Concerto. As always he played an encore having chatted to the audience first. He said he hoped Beethoven wouldn't mind, and then launched into a piece of jazz! It brought the house down and in no way detracted from the performance of his previous piece.
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Author: Mark Pinner
Date: 2004-01-25 09:34
A theme and variation solo is always good to finish on. A bit of adrenalin will get the last variation going. Try the American Library of Congress collection. There are plenty of theme and variation solos there and you can print them out.
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2004-01-26 13:29
How about one of the operatic theme and variations finger-wigglers? My favorite is Meister's Erwinn Fantaisie. It's a little over 5 minutes, but you could cut the repeats and maybe one of the variations.
Another possibility is Kreisler's Sicilienne and Riguadon -- published under the name of Francoeur. The first part is charming, and the second is a tonguing moto perpetuo. It's in Bonade's book of solos with piano.
Best regards.
Ken Shaw
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Author: ken
Date: 2004-01-26 14:21
1) What about a stirring rendition of "Flight of the Bumble Bee"? The piece is universally recognized, ETA about 5 minutes (adding maybe one 3rd ending) and adapted in print for a host of instrumentation. v/r Ken
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