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Spohr orchestration

Author: Liquorice
Date: 2005-12-15 14:53

Does anybody know if any of the 4 Spohr concertos have a string orchestra accompaniment without winds? I've been asked to play a concerto with a string orchestra. I wanted to do Finzi, but the orchestra aren't up to it and want to do something more classical/romantic. Any other ideas besides Spohr?

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Re: Spohr orchestration

Author: mgoetze
Date: 2005-12-15 15:38

The only concerti I can think of off the top of my head for Clarinet and String Orchestra are by Stamitz. Also there was some 19th-century clarinet virtuoso who wrote concerti for clarinet and string orchestra, but I forgot his name (and I'm afraid the music is rather forgetable, too).

If your audience is not too scholarly, you could, of course, play a baroque oboe concerto...

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Re: Spohr orchestration

Author: Mark G. Simon
Date: 2005-12-15 17:01

Four possibilities, coincidentally all British:

Malcolm Arnold -- Clarinet Concerto no. 1, op. 20

Gordon Jacob -- Mini concerto

William Mathias -- Clarinet concerto, op. 68

Arnold Cooke -- Clarinet concerto

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana--Mediocrates (2nd cent. BC)

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Re: Spohr orchestration

Author: GBK
Date: 2005-12-15 17:34

Here are a few links to try - compositions listed in the data base:

http://test.woodwind.org/Databases/Composers/Performers/000359.html

http://test.woodwind.org/Databases/Composers/Performers/003085.html

http://test.woodwind.org/Databases/Composers/Performers/004642.html

...GBK

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Re: Spohr orchestration

Author: crnichols
Date: 2005-12-15 18:19

The Spohr concerti definitely include significant wind parts. Incidentally, if you haven't acquired a good recording of them, Ernst Ottensamer did a beautiful job on the Naxos label. Here's an interesting suggestion, and it's not my own idea...but I heard someone do it and it came off well. You could play the Mozart clarinet quintet, or the Weber clarinet quintet with a string orchestra. I heard Igor Begelman perform the 2nd movement of the Mozart quintet as an encore with the Boston Classical Orchestra, and it really came off quite beautifully. You'd have to do some arranging of the cello part for the basses to make it practical though. Also, there is a wealth of repertoire from the classical period from the city of Mannheim. Concerti by Tausch, von Winter and many others.
Good luck!
Christopher Nichols
1st Infantry Division Band

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Re: Spohr orchestration

Author: Jack Kissinger
Date: 2005-12-15 20:29

Also for clarinet, harp and strings (and IMHO worth looking into) is Ben Heim's "Pastorale Variee." You can listen to a recording here:

http://www.classicalarchives.com/artists/yehuda.html

Best regards,
jnk

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