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Author: BelgianClarinet
Date: 2006-03-07 16:50
Last weekend I attended a life performance (life Ballet - wuppertaler tanztheater Pina Bausch - and full blown orchestra of the Munt in Brussels) of the Sacre du Printemps (Rite of Spring) of I. S.
This music is an absolute master piece, and the life performance was just a musicians dream.
I now just wonder if there is any other composer that used 2 bass clarinets in a 'symphonic' work ?
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Author: Ben
Date: 2006-03-07 17:03
The Credo for solo piano, chorus, and orchestra by Arvo Pärt, comes to mind. A beautiful work which has been recorded by Hélène Grimaud and Esa-Pekka Salonen.
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Author: LarryBocaner ★2017
Date: 2006-03-07 17:29
Arnold Schoenberg's orchestral transcription of Bach's "St. Anne" Prelude and Fugue has two nifty bass clarinet parts. Jonathan Tunick's original pit orchestration for Bernstein's "West Side Story" has (if I'm not mistaken) bass clarinet doubles in three different reed books!
Oops, West Side Story is Sid Ramin's orchestration!
Post Edited (2006-03-07 22:12)
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Author: Terry Stibal
Date: 2006-03-07 17:46
There are quite a few shows that have bass clarinet doubles - another one that comes immediately to mind is Mame, where a critical bass clarinet part occurs in one of the books during the opening scene. (That part only uses the bass for that one thirty two bar segment, and never calls for it again.)
I usually find out about these stealth parts during the last dress rehearsal, when the conductor wants to make sure that I (the only one in the pit seen with a bass clarinet) has them covered. At that point, we all find out that some other "bass clarinet challenged" Reed player has just been playing them on the soprano all along...Philistines!
Just now I'm doing the work up for a production of Wonderful Town, and badly missing the bass saxophone part, which I believe is in the bassoon player's book. I offered to get her a bass sax on loan, but she's not the saxophone type.
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2006-03-07 17:54
The only time I got to play "Sacre" was in a neat reduced-orchestra version that had both b.c. parts rolled into one -- that was great fun!
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Author: Shorthand
Date: 2006-03-08 05:42
Gunther Schuler wrote a 12-tone wind ensemble piece with a divisi BBb contra part, I forget the name, but the commission was to make a beautiful piece within the 12-tone structure and he pulled it off, its really quite beautiful, but I can't remember the name at the moment.
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Author: BassetHorn
Date: 2006-03-08 06:04
Thea Musgrave's clarinet concerto has a nice little bass clarinets duet in the first movement, I believe.
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