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Author: Lynne
Date: 2000-08-13 14:14
Hi! Just wondered if anyone out there could recommend some double clarinet concertos to play? I know there's one by Vivaldi (with 2 oboes I think). Are there any more? Thanks, Lynne.
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Author: I.B.
Date: 2000-08-13 17:54
Hi Lynne
I recommend you Franz Wilhelm Tausch's (1762 - 1817) Double Clarinet Concerto in B flat, Op 26 and Double Clarinet Concerto in B flat, Op 27. It's wonderfull music, full of witticisms.
Listen to the recording by Thea King and Nichols Bucknall.
I hope you like it.
I.B.
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Author: Graham Elliott
Date: 2000-08-14 11:55
Telemann, this is one of the best.
You can buy an adaptation of the Mendelsohn pieces for clarinet and basset horn, arranged for two clarinets and piano.
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Author: Lynne
Date: 2000-08-14 17:49
I didn't know Telemann wrote for the clarinet! I'm amazed at the amount of knowledge you all have. Thanks Graham, I'll try & find a recording of it. Lynne.
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Author: Dee
Date: 2000-08-14 22:05
Lynne wrote:
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I didn't know Telemann wrote for the clarinet! I'm amazed at the amount of knowledge you all have. Thanks Graham, I'll try & find a recording of it. Lynne.
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I'm not 100% sure but I think Telemann's work was actually for chalumeau, the ancestor of the clarinet.
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Author: Chris Ondaatje
Date: 2000-08-15 06:28
There are two Krommer Double concertos both are harmonically simple but great fun. The Op.35 is the most often played. The Mendelsson Concert Pieces are great, I prefer the 1st. Franz Hoffmeister also wrote a good one. If you accept that running arond in F major is good music. I wish there was a good modern one if anyone knows of one let me know.
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Author: I.B.
Date: 2000-08-15 07:39
I thougt the clarinet concerto as we know it today was developed a few years later by composers like Sphor, Stamitz, Krommer (there are at least two double clarinet concertos by Krommer, op. 35 and op.91), and of course, Mozart, Weber and others...
A baroque clarinet concerto? I think Dee's message is right.
Some baroque composers included clarinet in their works (like Vivaldi's concerto for two oboes and two clarinets), but they were writen for older versions of the clarinet, which were not taken "seriously" as individual instruments, and used as an alternative for oboe.
I can be wrong, but I think Telemann's may be an arrangement of a work writen for other instruments. The double concerto for flute and recorder?
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Author: Graham Elliott
Date: 2000-08-15 09:40
Dee is absolutely right (see post above). Telemann wrote it for chalumeaux. But it has been recorded on clarinets (Klocker did it very well in the 1970s though this may no longer be available). The piece seems to range wide across the clarinet's compass so i have always wondered just what sort of chalumeaux could have achieved that. Published by Musica Rara, and possible to purchase a version for two clarinets and piano. Whatever may be the original instruments Telemann had in mind, this is a wonderful piece (which I have performed in public with orchestra) that fits clarinets like a glove.
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Author: Jack Kissinger
Date: 2000-08-23 16:05
In addition to others already mentioned:
Backofen, Concertante
Devienne, Concertino
Muller, Symphonie Concertante
Stamitz, Concerto No. 4 (clarinet and violin or 2 clarinets)
Midi versions of all of the above (plus the Hoffmeister, Krommer Op. 35 (far and away my personal favorite), Mendelssohn, and Tausch) are available on the Sneezy mirror of Oliver Seeley's outstanding site.
A modern concerto by Genzmer is available.
Some others (Michael Haydn (2), Rossini Konzertstucke (2), Wartensee, Durko Hungarian Rhapsody) have been recorded but copies of the music are probably not available.
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