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Author: eccentricity
Date: 2013-03-25 17:49
Hey guys, I'm doing a senior recital sometime in May and I'm looking for an encore piece. I can play something for either solo clarinet or with a piano accompaniment. Does anybody have any suggestions? It doesn't have to be a certain style of music, I am OK with klezmer, jazz, or classical, but it should hopefully sound nice.
Thanks.
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2013-03-25 22:16
You and the audience need a break after the sturm und drang of the typical second-half closer. Anyway, nothing can top a Brahms Sonata or the Quintet, so you must go in another direction.
My favorite tension breaker is Reginald Kell's arrangement of a gigue from one of Corelli's violin sonatas, http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/Gigue/4309780#. It's absolutely charming, especially when played with a bit of a lilt. While it's not difficult, many important notes are on throat Bb, for which you should use the side key.
Others in the same vein are the Pie Jesu and the Libera Me Domine from the Faure Requiem. Played with true emotion, they leave the audience in tears.
Ken Shaw
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Author: EEBaum
Date: 2013-03-26 01:49
How are your pitch bending chops? I have some extra copies of a piece I wrote a few years ago that makes a great encore. I'm aiming to put out a free PDF eventually; for now, I can toss you one in the mail, on the house. Contact me offline ASAP if you're interested... I'm moving across the country on Wednesday and the stack of scores is going into the archive at the parents' garage.
The piece requires a couple prepared strings and a page turner who can read music.
-Alex
www.mostlydifferent.com
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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2013-03-26 19:38
The first thing that came to mind was a Gershwin Prelude. There's a decent arrangement by James Cohn pub. by Gershwin Enterprises, there are three to choose from. Also Viktor's Tale by John Williams would be nice, I"m doing both at a lecture recital in a few weeks myself.
ESP eddiesclarinet.com
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Author: Jack Kissinger
Date: 2013-03-26 21:16
Similar to Ed's recommendation, the first of Paul Harvey's "Three Etudes on Themes of Gershwin." Based on "I Got Rhythm," it ends perfectly (IMO).
Best regards,
jnk
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Author: MrJozzerBeast
Date: 2013-03-27 20:49
Just one word of advice I would like to give here. You may choose to go against it depending on your opinion.
I believe that the encore should be a piece performed with your accompanist/fellow performers. It would be quite rude to end the concert and then just come out and do a solo. Also, it would be a bit of an anti-climax. That is my only word of advice on this matter.
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Author: rmk54
Date: 2013-03-27 21:05
Better give Joshua Bell a talking to. He often encores with a Bach solo sonata.
I think you are dead wrong.
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Author: eccentricity
Date: 2013-03-28 01:14
@EEB, it's just me and the pianist, so I don't think that will work.
I'd rather end the concert on kind of a happy note. The gershwin solos sound a little too abstract to play as an encore, in my opinion, and don't quite have the energy I want. Are there any really fast, showy piece you guys know of? something in the vein of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_JkhFuzEoo (except for piano and clarinet, and not quite as difficult haha).
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Author: srattle
Date: 2013-03-28 22:25
One of my favorite encore pieces is the petit piece by Debussy.
One minute of pure beautiful. Also, it's available on IMSLP i believe.
Or, what I think would work very well is the last movement of Alec Templeton's "Pocket Size Sonata" Nr. 1. The mvt. is called "in Rhythm"
I think that would keep people pretty happy
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2013-03-28 23:54
Gershwin's "Walking the Dog" is as witty and non-abstract as it gets. It was good enough for Heifetz, after all. Why not for you?
If you insist on a finger-wiggler, I think the best of them is Erwin Fantaisie by Meister. It definitely shows that you have a big penis.
Frankly, I'd rather hear something that shows you have a big heart and a sense of humor.
Ken Shaw
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Author: Bob Phillips
Date: 2013-03-29 23:29
How about one movement from one of the 6 Bach cello suites? Pick your dance style.
Bob Phillips
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Author: clarinetist04
Date: 2013-03-30 03:47
Last movement of Poulenc? Last movement of the Castelnuovo-Tedesco Sonata? The latter has awesome clarinet and piano parts and I find it genuinely fun to play.
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Author: brycon
Date: 2013-03-30 05:27
I think you should just transcribe an Yngwie Malmsteen tune. That would definitely show the audience that you mean business. What is more, after suffering an hour of boring clarinet music, they will be craving some E minor chords played at lightening speed and tinnitus-inducing decibel levels.
So forget about Bach, Debussy, and Gershwin, and break out those leather pants!
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Author: Buster
Date: 2013-03-30 05:38
Yngwie?! only on a scalloped-fretboard-clarinet chief!
Learn the Phrygian mode and go to town.
Post Edited (2013-03-30 05:40)
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Author: Arnoldstang
Date: 2013-03-30 10:28
I am quite taken by the Yngwie encore selection. Do it.
Freelance woodwind performer
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Author: brycon
Date: 2013-03-30 17:35
Quote:
I am quite taken by the Yngwie encore selection.
Good to know my suggestion struck a chord with you. (It was the leather pants, right?)
I do Yngwie on my X-treme Clarinet Recitals (TM). After a drug induced romp through Rossini's variations, Nielsen's concerto, and the last two pages of Daphnes and Chloe- all at earth shattering volumes and tempi, I close with Ralph Macchio's Crossroads solo and some Yngwie.
So much machismo that my pelvic thrusts often induce fainting spells amongst the women in attendance.
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Author: JackHorrocks
Date: 2013-03-30 17:49
I agree. After tearing through the Francaix Concerto, the Nielsen concerto, Rossini variations and a couple of Spohr concertos, all at heart-attack inducing speed (roughly Prestissimo), the audience may need a slight breather. Some time to allow the heart rate to slow down
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Author: eccentricity
Date: 2013-04-02 01:40
Some great suggestions in here - thanks guys. I'm liking the debussy, gershwin, and "in rhythm" from the pocket sized sonata the most, will probably decide between those three.
@ken shaw, do you know of specific arrangement for "walking the dog" for clarinet in piano that's good, or should I just pick one randomly off google?
the yngwie...hahahah.
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