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Author: eduardo94
Date: 2016-05-06 00:56
I just finished the Carl Nielsen Concerto and I'll start to study to a international competition.
The repertoire is the usual Mozart, Debussy, Brahms, Weber ... but I never studied a contemporany solo piece with extend techniques.
Which one do you recommend to start?
I can choose between:
Bucchi - Concerto for clarinet solo
Donatoni - Clair
Dennissow - Sonata
I was thinking about the Widmann's Fantasy (I think this is a good choice to a person who never played a piece like this), but it's not on the program.
What do you think ?
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Author: Alexis
Date: 2016-05-06 02:39
Denisov is a great piece and you can play it quite cleanly. Donatoni - particularly the second part - is very hard to do well. Though it's brilliant if you can do it
I don't think the bucchi is a good piece. Clumsy and obvious use of extended techniques...and quite conservative musically. More straight-forward than the others, but I don't think it's worth the time.
The widmann has been in competitions recently and is another that is good to play cleanly. Though I think denisov and Clair are both better pieces.
Post Edited (2016-05-06 02:48)
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Author: brycon
Date: 2016-05-06 02:50
The Donatoni and Denisov are pretty light on extended techniques. Just the opening glisses in the Donatoni and some quarter-tones and flutter tongue in the Denisov. Out of those two, I like playing and hearing the Denisov more--it's a very effective piece. I don't really like the Widmann at all; I find it incredibly cheesy. And it has about the same amount of extended techniques as either of the other two pieces, so I don't know how it would function as contemporary music training wheels.
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