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Author: ruben
Date: 2020-06-18 23:17
i thought this might be an interesting topic for two reasons: 1. It would acquaint us with many works we are not necessarily familiar with. 2. Other people that will play the work may want to consult you to know what the composer had in mind in terms on interpretation.
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Author: ruben
Date: 2020-06-18 23:25
I will start the ball rolling by answering my own question. I have given first performances of several pieces by the American composer Gordon Sherwood, who was known as " Der Bettler Komponist" -the beggar composer. He earned his living by begging on the streets of Paris, roomed in flea-bag hotels,...and was an absolute musical genius. Now, it is your turn to tell us about the works you have premiered and what you think of them.
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Author: kdk
Date: 2020-06-19 03:31
Are you asking about solo pieces or are you including orchestral?
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Author: Simon Aldrich
Date: 2020-06-19 06:03
Ruben, you must mean solo pieces. For those who play(ed) in a contemporary music ensemble, the number of premiered pieces can easily number several hundred, after a coupe of decades in the ensemble. In part because contemporary organizations and festivals fetishize premieres. A contemporary concert has more cachet if it features one or more premieres.
The most recent solo piece I premiered is the Robin de Raaff Clarinet Concerto:
https://www.amazon.com/Clarinet-Concerto-clarinet-solo-ensemble/dp/B07F2J44Q1
The next piece I am premiering, in a month, is a piece for solo clarinet and dancer, by Marc Hyland:
https://festivaldesarts.ca/une-solitude-partagee/les-artistes/crazy-smooth-et-marc-hyland/
Simon
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Author: Tom H
Date: 2020-06-19 07:30
When I was a student at Queens College (NYC) and in the QC Orchestra ('70s), we performed several pieces by Ravel that one of the profs. discovered. No way I can recall their names.
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Author: ruben
Date: 2020-06-19 09:20
I had in mind mostly chamber music, pieces for unaccompanied clarinet and concertos.
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Author: ruben
Date: 2020-06-19 12:42
liquorice: full of life, invention and lyricism and beautifully played! -a real discovery. I'm looking forward to hearing the whole piece.
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Author: Tom Piercy
Date: 2020-06-20 16:14
Below is an incomplete list of composers whose music I have premiered; most of the pieces composed for me. Many of the composers listed include more than one piece.
If you would like to know a specific title, let me know.
Most of these are for clarinet and piano.
Also included are concertos, solo pieces, duos, trios, quartets and a few quintets.
(Other instruments used in some of these pieces include flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, double bass, percussion, mandolin, ryuteki, sho, hichiriki, koto, shakuhachi, shamisen, yangqin, guqin, erhu, suona)
會田瑞樹 Mizuki Aita
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坂野嘉彦 Yoshihiko Banno
大胡恵 Kei Daigo
合屋正虎 Masatora Goya
平井 京子 Kyoko Hirai
平山 智 Tomo Hirayama
細川 俊夫 Toshio Hosokawa
井上一平 Ippei Inoue
石井美栄子 Mieko Ishii
清水一徹 Shimizu Ittetsu
伊藤美由紀 Miyuki Ito
岩岡一志 Kazushi Iwaoka
伊左治直 Sunao Isaji
川上統 Osamu Kawakami
川崎真由子 Mayuko Kawasaki
橘川琢 Migaku Kitsukawa
小林祥恵 Sachie Kobayashi
桑原ゆう Yu Kuwabara
松本祐一 Yuichi Matsumoto
マクイーン時田深山 Miyama McQueen-Tokita
見澤ゆかり Yukari Misawa
森田泰之進 Yasunoshin Morita
村松崇継 Takatsugu Muramatsu
長生 淳 Jun Nagao
Akemi Naito
中堀海都 Kaito Nakahori
西村 朗 Akira Nishimura
小栗克裕 Katsuhiro Oguri
大江千里 Senri Oe
大羽田 大輔 Daisuke Ohata
佐原詩音 Shion Sahara
酒井健治 Kenji Sakai
坂本 龍 Ryuichi Sakamoto
Miho Sasaki
清水チャートリー Chatori Shimizu
下山一二三 Hifumi Shimoyama
白藤淳一 Junichi Shirafuji
鈴木治行 Haruyuki Suzuki
鷹羽弘晃 Hiroaki Takaha
高橋久美子 Kumiko Takahashi
田中 翔一朗 Shoichiro Tanaka
田口和行 Kazuyuki Taguchi
壺井 一歩 Ippo Tsuboi
内田輝 Akira Uchida
宇澤とも子 Tomoko Uzawa
薮田翔一 Shoichi Yabuta
山口恭子 Kyoko Yamaguchi
山本和智 Kazutomo Yamamoto
山本 哲也 Tetsuya Yamamoto
吉仲 淳 Atsushi Yoshinaka
Ramin Akhavijou
Alyssa Aska
Armando Ayala
Trevor Bachman
Rodrigo Baggio
Guy Barash
Greg Bartholomew
Richard Rodney Bennett
Jean-Patrick Besingrand
John Bilotta
Scott Brickman
Gordon Francis Blaney, Jr.
Ed Bland
Philippe Bodin
David Bohn
Seth Boustead
Julius Bucsis
Canary Burton
Wendy Mae Chambers
Kanokpak Changwitchukarn
Yihan Chen
Young-Shin Choi
William Coble
Andy Cohen
Steve Cohen
Douglas DaSilva
Seth David
Andrew Davis
Malcolm Dedman
David Del Tredici
Nick Didkovsky
Dominic Dousa
Alan Elkins
Elisenda Fabrégas
David Fetherolf
Dagmar Feyen
Donal Fox
Jim Fox
Michael Frazier
Donal Fox
Gilbert Galindo
Lyudmilla German
Jacob Goodman
Eli Greenhoe
Adam Giese
Nicolas Gilbert
Jacob Goodman
Melissa Grey
Daron Hagen
Jin Hee Han
David Heuser
Jennifer Higdon
Joel Hobbs
Kevin Holland
Katherine Hoover
Cindi Hsu
Zhihua Hu
Silas Huff
Justin Hung
Kento Iwasaki
Yohei Kurihara
Wang Jie
JP Jofre
Emil Khoury
Steven Kreamer
Eli Marshall
Tim Labor
Benjamin Lees
Paul Yeon Lee
Bin Li
Qi Li
Elizabeth Lim
David Loeb
Piyawat Louilarpprasert
Raymond Luedeke
Joshua Banks Mailman
Matt Mason
Eli Marshall
Peri Mauer
William Mayer
Daniel Mihai
Dom Minasi
Paul Morin
David Morneau
Alon Nechustan
Ian Ng
James Soe Nyun
Sean O'Boyle
Lucas Oickle
Sergey Oskolkov
Fernando Otero
Joseph Perhson
Troy Peters
Jonathan Pieslak
Russell Platt
Gene Pritsker
André Ristic
Aaron Robinson
Robert Xavier Rodriguez
Erin Rogers
Manly Romero
Paul Anthony Romero
Ned Rorem
Michael Rose
Richard Rosenfeld
Marjorie Rusche
Dana Richardson
Aaron Robinson
Michael Schelle
Brian Schober
David Schober
Allen Schulz
Thomas Schuttenhelm
Jose Serebrier
Edward Schocker
Thanakarn Schofield
Alex Shanafelt
Bob Siebert
Nina Siniakova
John Spartan
Steven Serpa
Bob Siebert
Samuel Stokes
David Su
Emilio Teubal
Olav Anton Thommessen
Daniel Thompson
Ruben Toledo
Douglas Townsend
Frances White
Benjamin Williams
Donald Reid Womack
Rain Worthington
Russell Wimbish
David Wolfson
Tom Piercy
Post Edited (2020-06-21 14:13)
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Author: Liquorice
Date: 2020-06-20 23:15
Wow Tom that is an impressive list! Are there any articular works that stand out for you for any reason?
(BTW- Ned Rorem appears twice on the list)
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Author: cigleris
Date: 2020-06-21 02:35
I’ve given premiers of works by:
Clive Jenkins
Andrew Wilson
Lloyd Moore
David Braid
Peter Seabourne
Graham Williams
Simon Milton
David Maslanka (British premier)
and others I can’t remember right now.
Historical composers I have premiered/first modern performance are
Ruth Gipps
Peter Wishart
Rudolph Dolmetsch
Arthur Benjamin
Fredrick Durrant
Susan Spain-Dunk
Mary Anderson Lucas
Peter Cigleris
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Author: ruben
Date: 2020-06-21 10:37
Peter: What did you perform by Arthur Benjamin? I know it's hard to choose, but what are some of your favourites among the pieces you have premiered? Thank you!
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Author: donald
Date: 2020-06-21 13:04
I think any clarinet player who is interested and actively involved in a sophisticated artistic environment is going to end up playing many premieres throughout their career. The interesting factor is how many of them are worth a second and third performance...
As an example, the repertoire I've played at the 4 Clarinet-fests I've performed at included almost entirely of premieres- or "US premieres" of works that had been only recently written.
Over the years there have been 2 works I've premiered, and been very sad to have many opportunities to play repeatedly (and disappointed that other musicians didn't embrace).
- A clarinet/piano sonata by Ted (Frederick) Trobaugh entitled "Julian and Maddalo", I recorded this for a CD in 1997 and performed it once or twice then. In 2002 I again performed this piece a few times in NZ and Germany, but since then have not had an opportunity to play it again (I really really feel I can do a much better job that the 97 recording!). The piano part for this sonata is insanely difficult, which is part of the problem...
- "Thirteen ways of looking at a Blackbird" by Alex Taylor (NZ composer now living in USA) for Clarinet, Countertenor and String quartet. I posted about this piece on this forum with little result. A really good piece with 2 minor shortcomings- it's hard to find a countertenor (Taylor verbally agreed to make a version for Soprano, but would need a potential performance to push him to action) and there are a few obvious Quartet for the end of time quotes that may inspire a rolling of the eyes, but are gone in a whisper and there isn't a derivative moment in the whole rest of the piece.
< https://sounz.org.nz/works/20427?locale=en >
There have been many many other premieres, too many to remember and of little interest here on the BB, but those two stand out as deserving to be better known.
dn
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Author: Tom Piercy
Date: 2020-06-21 14:09
Hey Liquorice.
Thanks for noticing the double Rorem entry. Edited.
Short list of some of the stand outs:
合屋正虎 Masatora Goya:
Concerto for Clarinet.
Four Seasons (2 movements for clarinet/piano; 2 movements for hichirki/piano)
川上統 Osamu Kawakami:
Double Concerto for clarinet and piano
桑原ゆう Yu Kuwabara
"Madara no Dharani - Patched Dharani"
森田泰之進 Yasunoshin Morita
"ReincarnatiOn RIng IXd" solo clarinet and electronics
長生 淳 Jun Nagao
"Your Kindness" clarinet/piano
Akemi Naito
"Solittude" clarinet/electronics
大江千里 Senri Oe
"Sketch" "Intellectual Lover" clarinet/piano
下山一二三 Hifumi Shimoyama
"Amalgam A" clarinet/shakuhachi/piano
田中 翔一朗 Shoichiro Tanaka
"Hommage a Aoyama" clarinet/piano
田口和行 Kazuyuki Taguchi
"Double Concerto" clarinet/mandolin
薮田翔一 Shoichi Yabuta
"Sonata" clarinet solo; "Skyline" clarinet/piano
Richard Rodney Bennett
"Ballad in Memory of Shirley Horn" clarinet/piano
Ed Bland
Four Corners" clarinet/piano
Yihan Chen
Changqiang II "Contemplation on Purity" hichiriki/piano
Changqiang III "Little rituals here and there" clarinet/piano
David Del Tredici
"Farewell" clarinet/piano; clarinet/string-quartet
Gilbert Galindo
"Lost in the Caves" bass clarinet / electronics
Daron Hagen
"Early:Later, 90 for Ned" clarinet/piano
Jennifer Higdon
"A Gentle Notion: 90 notes for Ned" clarinet/piano
Bin Li
"Netori, Netori" Concerto for clarinet and Gagaku ensemble
Fernando Otero
"One Heart" clarinet/piano or clarinet/piano/double-bass
Ned Rorem
"Four Colors" clarinet/piano
"Pas de Trois" clarinet/violin/piano
Olav Anton Thommessen
"Dark" clarinet/piano
Tom Piercy
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Author: cigleris
Date: 2020-06-21 22:07
Hi Ruben,
The Benjamin was the recently discovered Quintet in C minor from 1913/14 and was found in the British Library with his papers etc. It was dug out in around 2014 by Ian Munro of the Australian Ensemble and a performance was given in Australia that same year. I was involved in the publication which sought to iron out some of the issues from the manuscript which where not quite right in the Australian performance. My performance was Sept 2019 with the Tippett Quartet at Conway Hall, London.
If I had to choose it would be the Susan Spain-Dunk because of its emotional depth and you’ll be able to hear in a premier recording for the BBC later this year. The Ruth Gipps because it’s the concerto that Vaughan Williams might have written and Peter Wishart because of the combination of pastiche and seriousness. You’ll also hear that on the disc with the Spain-Dunk.
PS the Gipps recording is coming out this month or next with my fabulous colleague Robert Plane as soloist.
Peter Cigleris
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Author: ruben
Date: 2020-06-21 23:20
Looking forward to all of this, Peter! Especially the Gipps.
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Author: ruben
Date: 2020-06-22 12:40
Peter: ps: I hope you record the Benjamin someday!
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