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Author: clarinet713
Date: 2005-03-09 16:32
Hello again,
Can anyone tell me about this aria: Parto! Ma tu ben mio (from La Clemenza di Tito).
There is an arrangement? of it for soprano, clarinet, and piano and I'm wondering what this is like. Thanks in advance!!
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2005-03-09 16:55
Parto, parto is a wonderful aria for soprano and orchestra with clarinet obbligato. It's for Bb clarinet with a "basset" extension down to low C, and the low notes are frequent and prominent. However, it's so good that it's been recorded frequently on the standard instrument.
It's no piece of cake. There are wide leaps and arpeggios through the entire range of the instrument, and long passages with no place to breathe. It's a virtuoso part for the soprano, and both you and she have to toss it off, seemingly without effort.
You and the singer frequently echo phrases and toss them back and forth, and part of doing it right is that you play like a singer and she sings like a clarinet.
It's certainly doable in a piano reduction, but I think it would go much better with orchestra.
Have fun.
Ken Shaw
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Author: bob49t
Date: 2005-03-09 18:48
clarinet713,
As Ken says this is a lovely piece with lots of great arpeggio passages for the clar obbligato. I had the honour of playing this and some of the Spohr Songs with a lovely soprano and pianist a couple of years ago.
Following is a link to a "sound bite" with orchestra. It's only a minute long and you just get the flavour of the early clarinet entries.
We found the piano reduction quite acceptable and the audiences gave us very favourable feedback.
Hope you enjoy it.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000004288/qid=1110396129/sr=1-5/ref=sr_1_10_5/026-5149180-3180404
BobT
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Author: Liquorice
Date: 2005-03-09 19:47
There is another wonderful aria in the opera ('Non piu di fiori') with an obbligato part for basset horn. Both arias were written by Mozart with Anton Stadler in mind, the same clarinetists for whom Mozart wrote the clarinet concerto.
I'm very excited as I will be playing this in our opera house next month, and in concert in London in May.
I've also played 'Parto! Ma tu ben mio' in the piano reduction version with a "normal" B-flat clarinet, and it alsways seems to go down well with audiences.
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Author: larryb
Date: 2005-03-09 22:42
The Billaudot (I think) edition of "Non piu di fiori" has the obligatto part transcribed for Bb and also comes with a Bb clarinet transcription of the voice part, so you could play it as a clarinet duet with piano. The basset horn part is there too in the piano score, but not as a separate part.
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Author: diz
Date: 2005-03-10 01:35
In my humble opinion ... does not work on a standard clarinet, especially as Herr Mozart was so attuned to the delicious lower register of his extended clarinet. Opera Australia performed this a year ago (maybe more, can't remember) and the orchestra's principal clarinetist used a "basset clarinet". Very fine playing and a beautiful setting.
Without music, the world would be grey, very grey.
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Author: donald
Date: 2005-03-10 02:53
i saw this opera in Manneheim in 2002, and the Basset Clarinet and Basset Horn parts were played by a soloist (not a member of the pit orchestra) who came on stage and played with the singer in front of the audience.
there were also (real) lions on stage
donald
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2005-03-10 13:59
Did the soloist stick his clarinet/basset horn into the lion's mouth? ![[tongue]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie6.gif)
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