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Author: cigleris
Date: 2020-03-08 17:45
In honour of IWD what are your favourite clarinet works by female composers?
Peter Cigleris
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Author: Liquorice
Date: 2020-03-09 03:12
Just driving home today, listening to the car radio I heard the slow movement from Louise Farrenc's Symphony No. 3. It has a very prominent and beautiful clarinet part. I hadn't heard it before, but it's worth getting to know for clarinet players.
But I also have to give my vote to the Saariaho Concerto!
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Author: cigleris
Date: 2020-03-09 03:32
Liquorice, you should check out Farrenc’s Trio for clarinet, cello and piano. Beautiful. I don’t know the Saariaho but will investigate.
Peter Cigleris
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Author: clarinetist04
Date: 2020-03-09 04:33
Saariaho's concerto is definitely wild! A cool piece. Nancy Bloomer Deussen's Concerto is an absolutely lovely piece. Not terribly difficult but just a beautiful piece by a wonderful person and composer. She's active in the San Francisco scene.
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Author: seabreeze
Date: 2020-03-09 05:22
I've heard only Kari Krikku play the Saariaho concerto, and his performance was riveting. Does anybody else play it? Saariaho's Duft for clarinet and piano has been gaining in popularity. Amanda Harberg's Sonata and Jeanine Rueff's Concertino are more conventional works that I can enjoy playing. The Ida Gotkovsky Concerto and the Chinese Ancient Dances by Chen Yi (commissioned by David Shifrin) deserve to be played more. No doubt there is a great deal of music for clarinet by women composers that is out of print or has never been commercially published that merits a hearing as well.
Post Edited (2020-03-09 07:03)
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Author: Tom H
Date: 2020-03-09 06:14
The McGinty Rhapsody with band is nice. I've played it and heard it a couple of times. The middle section is open to different interpretations.
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Author: ebonite
Date: 2020-03-09 12:50
Amy Beach's Gaelic Symphony has some great solos for bass clarinet (in A!) in the 3rd movement
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Author: donald
Date: 2020-03-09 13:33
I performed the Amy Beach symphony mentioned above a few years back, and we (the orchestra) LOVED it, but the reviewer did not- comparing it unkindly with Mahler 3 (composed in the same year).
My favourite pieces by Women composers....
Rebecca Clarke- the duo for Viola and clarinet.
From the modern era? In NZ we have so many great pieces written by women that it seems pointless to make a point of the gender. However I do understand that this is not the case world wide.
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Author: ruben
Date: 2020-03-09 13:37
Dear Peter: I have a particular fondness for Rebecca Clarke. As our leading exponent of British clarinet music, I imagine you've played her music. For clarinet, I only know the wonderfuml duet for viola and clarinet.
rubengreenbergparisfrance@gmail.com
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