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Author: redwine
Date: 2007-12-22 11:55
Hello,
I just received a very interesting project in the mail yesterday.
John Reeks, bass clarinetist in the New Orleans Symphony, has had the Schumann Fantasy Pieces and the Brahms 1st and 2nd Sonatas arranged to be played with string quartet by Harold Seletsky.
For the price of a cd, you can get his recording (fabulous playing) performing these three works and you also get (saved on the disc) PDF copies of all the parts.
With today's technology, this is a great idea. Here's the link: www.cdbaby.com/cd/reeksjohn
John is clarinet professor at Loyola University. He purchased and renovated a house and subsequently lost it in Katrina. This is a topic near to me, as my step daughter just graduated from Loyola and she lost everything in Katrina too. Of course, I met John back when I was a grad student at LSU, studying with Steve Cohen. He's a great guy and supporting him helps out a Katrina victim as well as gets you a product worth more than the ticket price.
If you order, please tell him hello from me and that I sent you!
Ben Redwine, DMA
owner, RJ Music Group
Assistant Professor, The Catholic University of America
Selmer Paris artist
www.rjmusicgroup.com
www.redwinejazz.com
www.reedwizard.com
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Author: johng ★2017
Date: 2007-12-22 15:55
I just bought one on e**y and was quite pleased. John Reeks' playing is very nice and I look forward to trying these at a summer-time chamber music session I go to in the Columbia River Gorge.
I notice that there is one place in the Brahms Sonata #1, 1st movement where the key signature in the clarinet changes to 6 sharps, but then flats are added to almost all the notes so it is really in the correct 6 flats! Has anyone played these pieces using their regular sonata part rather than the one provided? Since I have my sonatas marked up just the way I want them, that would be nice.
Despite some formatting problems in the printed music (typical of the earlier versions of Finale), this is an excellent buy and some great music to play in a new way.
John Gibson, Founder of JB Linear Music, www.music4woodwinds.com
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Author: redwine
Date: 2007-12-22 16:14
Hello,
I haven't looked at the new parts yet. I would assume you could play from another printed version, as I don't think anything was changed, just arranged. However, I only listened superficially once.
Ben Redwine, DMA
owner, RJ Music Group
Assistant Professor, The Catholic University of America
Selmer Paris artist
www.rjmusicgroup.com
www.redwinejazz.com
www.reedwizard.com
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Author: Bob Phillips
Date: 2007-12-22 16:41
John Reeks performed the Brahms #2 at ClarinetFest in Vancouver, BC this summer. It is quite an interesting variation.
In a sense, it looses some of the intimacy of the piano/clarinet duo --and it alters the percussive attacks of the piano (no matter how legato) when bowed on the strings. That gives the works a new character.
I am currently preparing a further variation by moving the string parts to the (rest of) a woodwind quintet. Cello to Bassoon, Viola to Horn, 2nd violin to oboe, 1st violin to flute. I've finished the 2nd movement of the Brahms Op. 120 No. 2 as a test case to audition with my ww5 early in the new year.
Bob
Bob Phillips
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Author: davyd
Date: 2007-12-22 21:20
This sounds intriguing, though I'm sure the string parts are quite difficult.
Does the PDF section include the scores, or just the parts?
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Author: johng ★2017
Date: 2007-12-22 23:17
The PDF's include both score and parts.
John Gibson, Founder of JB Linear Music, www.music4woodwinds.com
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