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Re: Hadcock’s The Working Clarinetist or Baron/Nuccio’s The Audition Method?

Author: seabreeze
Date: 2020-10-14 19:40

Hadcock's 2 books (one for Bb/A and the other for Eb clarinets) are hardly "dark horse." They are the standard compact reference today for a selection of orchestral excerpts for the clarinet. Hadcock also gives valuable warnings about what is likely to go wrong and useful fingering suggestions. Nuccio's book is good too, and both books have a place in every clarinetist's library. Ben Armato's opera excerpt book is another must have volume.

But you need entire clarinet parts and scores as well. Like this one from the Orchestral Musican's Library https://orchmusiclibrary.com/pdf/replacements/mahler_sym_cl.pdf. Their complete set is good, but you can also find some of the same for free now if you search. Borris Allakhverdyan, now principal cl. in the Los Angeles Philharmonic, studied first in Russia and said that he did mostly scales and technical work. When he came to the US and studied at Oberlin, Richard Hawkins gave him the full orchestral clarinet treatment, which (along with his considerable talent) no doubt helped him get his position with the Met and later with Los Angeles.

More important than studying excerpts or even complete isolated parts is (as Tony Pay has often said) actually playing in an orchestra. Find an orchestra to play with!

Post Edited (2020-10-14 21:48)

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