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Author: Bob Phillips
Date: 2007-11-10 22:51
This for Clarinet and Bassoon with String Orchestra and Harp.
I've just been handed a copy to sight read and find it quite difficult, bordering on the inscrutable.
Does anyone have any comments on this piece?
Thanks
Bob Phillips
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2007-11-11 20:42
I love it to bits, though I can't play it.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2007-11-12 15:16
"and apart from the disgusting use of sharps"
Hence the reason why I'm struggling with it.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: Bob Phillips
Date: 2007-11-12 15:28
thanks, I'll have another look at it from the bear/princess imagery
meantime, it reminds me a bit of Strauss' Death and Transfiguration. (mine!)
Bob Phillips
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Author: Tobin
Date: 2007-11-12 16:51
"...it reminds me a bit of Strauss' Death and Transfiguration. (mine!)"
How's that Bob? Oh, you mean it will either kill you or you'll be a better clarinetist afterwards?
I (as I'm sure many here did) saw Loren Kitt performance this with ????? at with the National Symphony Orchestra back at Clarinetfest in 20??
James
Gnothi Seauton
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Author: OmarHo
Date: 2007-11-12 21:19
Good luck Afendi!
The Chicago Symphony recording w/ Larry Combs and David McGill (I think) is supposed to be a good one.
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2007-11-12 22:40
"I'll have another look at it from the bear/princess imagery"
Is that like making a silk purse out of a pig's ear?
It's still in pig's ear form for me, though like any Richard Strauss it's well worth the effort and something to keep anyone occupied with.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: Bob Phillips
Date: 2007-11-13 15:11
Naw, i thought about the allusion to me dying of the Strauss, and that recalled the difficult (to make musical) clarinet work in his Death and Transfiguration --where the clarinet is to be a palpitating, arrhythmic heart beat.
Bob Phillips
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