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Author: Ken
Date: 2001-03-18 14:36
Looking for any background info on Malcolm Arnold's "Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano" for upcoming tour. All I can find is the piece was composed in 1951...the Lengnick copy I have has no blurb. Thx again folks for your help and expertise.
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Author: Bino
Date: 2001-03-20 06:06
This comes from the cd notes on an Emma Johnson CD..." Sir Colin Davis is these days a pre-eminent British conductor, but his musical beginings were on the clarinet, and he is recalled by many as a fine practitioner. In March of 1951 he gave the first performance with the pianist Geoffrey Corbett of Arnold's miniature Sonatina for clarinet and piano, Op. 29. This is a pair of wind sonatinas Arnold completed within two weeks of one another that January. (The other was an oboe piece for Leon Goosens, a study for his concerto the following year.) As always with Arnold, it is impeccably crafted: the first movement, with it's wide leaps, the occasional incursion of a six-eight bar into the prevailing four-four, and the lightest of jazzy touches, lives up to its marking of Allegro con brio; while the second demonstates Arnold's love at this period of a gentle cantabile style where no shadows yet lurk. The finale is a wild dance in three-four time marked Furioso, and it is a distant cousin of the Czech Furiant. With its vigorous rhythms and cascading semiquavers, it has something of the open-air quality of Dvorak at his most buccolic - not a frequent influence on Malcolm Arnold, but a highly appropriate one in this charming (and challenging) little work."
c Piers Burton-Page, 1995
Sir Malcolm Arnold Complete Works for the Clarinet
Emma Johnson soloist
Hope this helped out a little....
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Author: Ken
Date: 2001-03-20 13:50
Splendid! Much to work with. Thx for taking the time to copy that out for me! <:-)))
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Author: Becca
Date: 2005-11-22 16:49
hi im currently studying for grade 8 clarinet exam and really needing some info. on the first movement of Malcolm Arnold's Sonatina for clarinet and piano, op. 29, and also Brams' Sonate-es-dur op.120 No.2, from andante con moto to the end. I need to find out when they were written and any interesting facts etc. so any help would be great! thanks...if anyone could tell me anything tonight it would be really helpful!
Becca Schubert
Post Edited (2005-11-22 16:51)
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Author: GBK
Date: 2005-11-22 17:03
Sir Malcolm Arnold has a very nice web site.
Go to Google. It is easy to find ...GBK
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Author: bob49t
Date: 2005-11-22 17:29
Becca........Brahms....1894
try
http://clarinet.cc/archives/000050.html.........RT
also...try a search here in the archives...may pull up something relevant.
BobT
Post Edited (2005-11-22 17:39)
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Author: ken
Date: 2005-11-22 23:00
I did some digging and turned-up the Emcee Blurb used for my solo performance(s) with the U.S. Air Force Band. Feel free to hack at will:
[The “Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano” was premiered at London’s Royal Albert Hall in 1951 by renowned British Conductor and Clarinetist Sir Colin Davis. A highly prolific composer, Arnold speedily penned this highly-charged and challenging work in only one week’s time. Impeccably crafted, the first movement lives up to its marking of "allegro con brio" with its fiery underlying pulse, wide leaps and at times, light jazzy riffs. The second movement is a peaceful and soothing, yet lurking cantabile-styled ballad. The "Furioso" and final movement culminates a wild, spirited Czech dance, incorporating lively rhythms and vividly highlighting the performer's technique.]
Play well! v/r Ken
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Author: Becca
Date: 2005-11-28 20:18
Hello again people! was wonderin if any of you had some really interestin facts bwt Brahms and his Sonate-es-dur op.120.- especially from the section 'andante con moto' and onwards. im finding it really hard to pick out the things id want to use in my exam! any great facts about him and that piece would be great! thanks again!
Becca Schubert
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Author: GBK
Date: 2005-11-28 21:03
Becca: Please list the reference material you have already used in your research on the Brahms Eb sonata.
Remember - the bulletin board is not to be used for "homework assignments".
After you have exhausted your local resources, asking people to list references for you to check is fine...GBK
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