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Author: cigleris
Date: 2013-07-28 09:37
Do the York Bowen. Its a wonderful Sonata that needs to be played outside of the UK. It is not really standard repertoire here in the UK but that might change as Bowen is having a little Renaissance. I've performed it and it is popular with audiences.
The first movement would be the best movement for the lyrical aspect of ones playing. The second movement needs lightness and the finale is heavy though exciting, which has a rather big piano part.
Peter Cigleris
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2013-07-28 11:55
Audition committees have no idea what you've played before. They're looking to compare your playing with that of the other applicants. Part of your job is to be able to play familiar pieces with total commitment each time.
The Mozart Concerto is a bottomless well of inspiration, which, if you have music in you, you will play differently every time through. Sure, the committee will get tired of hearing it over and over, but it's their job to maintain concentration and evaluate your playing.
Suppose they ask each applicant to play the Ab major scale up and down two octaves in thirds. Ideally, the playing should be exactly the same, yet the committee will pick out moments of technical unevenness no matter how many times they hear it.
They're looking for basic competence and musicality. They expect and want you to play the Mozart, which, believe me, is LOT harder to get exactly right than the Nielsen Concerto.
My advice is to play the Mozart for your lyrical piece and something spiky, like the Martino Set for Clarinet, or something newer with special techniques like multiphonics.
Ken Shaw
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2013-07-28 12:39
john4256 -
Go first to Rehfeldt, New Directions for Clarinet http://www.vcisinc.com/clarinet.htm, item C034.
Next, go to Clarinet Secrets: 52 Performance Strategies for the Advanced Clarinetist Revised Edition by Michèle Gingras, item C203, and her many YouTube lessons.
I haven't read Exploring the Clarinet by Mikko Raasakka, item C1774, but it looks interesting.
C035: Multiphonics and Other Contemporary Clarinet Techniques by Gerald Farmer
C040: Preliminary Exercises & Etudes in Contemporary Techniques for Clarinet by Ronald L. Caravan
C645: The Versatile Clarinet edited by Roger Heaton
I think all of these players have made CDs using advanced techniques, which are essential listening to learn how they are used in performance.
Ken Shaw
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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2013-07-28 17:41
I taught at the Peabody conservatory for many years so here's my advise. Check the audition requirments for each of the schools you want to aidition for. I never liked a student to play a contemporary piece that I was not familiar with because I didn't have the ability to judge how it's being performed. One of the things we did in my days, 19 years, was to require all undergraduates to play the Adagio mov't from the Mozart concerto as a sourse of comparision to judge musicianship and maturity. Then we allowed the student to choose anything else they wanted. The Debussy is a great piece, it showes every aspect of an udergraduate audition. We welcomed a Brahms Sonata or any of the other pieces you've already played and most of the others mentioned. I think it's OK to play something contempory as long as you give the jury a choice of something else so they can judge you on something standard as well. The Debussy fit's that well. Check each school for sure first.
ESP eddiesclarinet.com
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