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Author: carmen izzo
Date: 2002-06-07 04:07
Hey clarinetists,
Over and over again i hear you people asking, "Whats your favorite clarinet piece to play?" Honestly, I dont care. Whats more interesting is orchestral parts. So, when playing in an orchestra, what is your favorite clarinet part to play in?
Good Night all
CaRmEn
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Author: diz
Date: 2002-06-07 04:21
Any Brahms symphony - number three is my favourite.
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Author: Kim L.
Date: 2002-06-07 04:56
Personally, I think the most awesome piece that I have ever heard(I wish I have played it!) is Star Wars(arr. Donald Hunsberger)!
Kim L.
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Author: graham
Date: 2002-06-07 10:10
No one favourite but here's a few I would like to do:
Slow movement of Beethoven 9th on clarinet
Shostokovitch 8th on Bass Clarinet (and Gould's Latin American Sinfoniette)
Mozart Requiem on basset horn (not much choice there)
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Author: David Peacham
Date: 2002-06-07 11:35
For sheer good fun and exhibitionism, I should imagine the solos in Nielsen 5 would take some beating.
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Author: Micaela
Date: 2002-06-07 15:48
Brahms's Symphony No. 4
What about chamber music? My favorite string quartets are Beethoven op. 131 and Schubert Death and the Maiden.
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Author: David Pegel
Date: 2002-06-07 16:00
Of course I haven't played this personally - a little too advanced - but I wouldn't mind playing Ravel's "Rapsodie Espagnole" and "Pavane for a Deceased Infanta"
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2002-06-07 17:04
Yes, I do like the Ravel, the Brahms, but even more highly favored are Bizet L'Arles., Mend's Mid Summer AND R Strauss's tone poems, quite a wide variety?? Don
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Author: Rob Bell
Date: 2002-06-07 17:20
The spartacus suites are good fun by Khatchaturian, good solo parts on clarinet!
Rob
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Author: Aaron Diestel
Date: 2002-06-07 17:40
I take a different turn on the favorite orchestral piece. Not so much in the wonderful clarinet parts, but the music itself. WHile many of the above pieces are top on my list as well, I love the sheer power of Mahler's 2nd symphony, the "Ressurrection". In the more modern era, I have to go with Penderecki's 7th symphony, the Seven Gates of Jerusalem, or John Adams "Hormonielehre".My tastes take mew all over the map, but as far as a piece that is just "the" piece for me I have to go with the Mahler 2nd. It has given me more listening/performing joy over the past years than any other work.
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Author: Ken Shaw
Date: 2002-06-07 18:09
The big solo in The Pines of Rome.
The opening solo in the Sibelius First.
The opening of the Tchaikovsky Fifth.
The Beethoven Sixth.
The Tchaikovsky Sixth.
The Dvorak Cello Concerto.
Ken Shaw
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Author: LaLa
Date: 2002-06-07 18:18
Hands down it would be Scheherazade by Rimsky-Korsakov, Debussy's Daphnis et Chloe, and Stravinsky's Firebird Suite! I just love the impressionist composers!
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Author: Chris Horril
Date: 2002-06-07 21:24
Here are my favourites orchestral 1st clarinet pieces:
Rachmaninoff 2nd Symphony
Prokofiev 3rd piano concerto
Beethoven 4th Symphony (slow movement)
Shostakovich 10
Tippet Midsummer Dances
Sibelius 1st
Chris Horril (Kensington Symphony Orchestra www.kso.org.uk)
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Author: Gretchen
Date: 2002-06-08 03:41
LaLa, i'm with you!!  Great pieces!
Tchaik 6 is awesome for clarinet solos.
Beethoven 7's 2nd movement is beautiful as well.
My personal favorite just for music sake however...is Barber's Adagio for strings. It makes me tear up every time i hear it. Absolutely GORGEOUS!
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Author: Lee
Date: 2002-06-08 04:24
hey all
my favorite piece in dvorak's new world symphony.I fell in love with
the piece after I heard it played at avery fisher hall a few months
ago with the NY Philharmonic, with those great clarinetist
Drucker, Nuccio, freeman, and the new guy who is also great
Pascal Martinez forteza.
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Author: GBK
Date: 2002-06-08 04:39
For his skill and understanding in handling and voicing all woodwind instruments, and his particular knack for using the clarinet for its expressive beauty, few composers did it better than Mendelssohn in his Symphony No. 3 (Scotch).
For a solo clarinet part that is a pure joy to play (and one that truly lifts the soul): Kodaly "Galanta Dances" ...GBK
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Author: Stéphane
Date: 2002-06-08 13:13
GBK, the Mend. #3 is "Scottish", "Scotch" is what you should be easy on before writting on this BB
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Author: GBK
Date: 2002-06-08 15:02
Stéphane...As I am trying to hang on to as many brain cells as possible, I do not drink any alcohol. (although from my writings it may not seem so)
My drink of choice? Water (straight, no chaser)...GBK
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Author: james
Date: 2002-06-08 23:02
Wow, you all nailed my favorites. But also someone mentioned playing concerto pieces (for other instruments) Dvorak is a good one, how about The Bartok Viola Concerto? Some very nice clarinet stuff in there.
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Author: Aussie Nick
Date: 2002-06-09 04:30
Pines of Rome, Shostakovich 5th, Symphonie Fantastique, umm maybe Debussy Iberia? Can't think of others.. I have played the 1st part to Ravel Rhapsodie Espagnole...it's not very exciting.
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Author: anon
Date: 2002-06-09 06:08
Well, most of my favorites have been mentioned, so I'll go off the beaten track:
Bass clarinet: Don Quixote
Eb clarinet: Till Eulenspiegel
2nd clarinet: Tchaikovsky 5th
1st clarinet: My favorites have already been mentioned, so how about Hungarian Rhapsody number 2? Great cadenzas, plus I'd like to meet someone who can nail the tuttis in that - tonguing sixteenths at close to two hundred in the altissimo is just nutty!
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Author: Gene Wie
Date: 2002-06-09 10:53
Beethoven - Symphony No. 4
R. Strauss - Don Juan, Till Eulenspiegel
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Author: LaLa
Date: 2002-06-09 22:00
ooh ooh!! another one of my favorites is Ravel's La Valse and Mother Goose Suite aka Ma Mere l'Oye
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Author: David Dow
Date: 2002-06-10 13:18
I love Tchaikovky 5 and the duo between clarinet and horn, which we did this season in our orchestra. for me this was the 2cd time to play the solos and man is this a great slow movement!
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Author: charles
Date: 2002-06-10 18:33
you know its kinda sad, but on of my favorite solo clarinet parts in a symphony believe it or not is the clarinet part to "peter and the wolf" it is such a fun part, repetative as it is, it is so much fun.
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Author: Gretchen
Date: 2002-06-13 16:30
that's not sad charles, that's a fun piece! hard, but fun! I used to listen to that ALL the time when i was little.
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Author: john
Date: 2002-06-14 01:40
PINES OF ROME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Author: David Dow
Date: 2002-06-17 14:02
Varese Ameriques and Arcana!!!
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