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 basset clarinet
Author: larryb 
Date:   2007-10-31 11:37

I know some people own basset clarinets in A in order to re-create Mozart's original concerto and quintet. that may be well justifiable in a cost-benefit analysis.

Does anyone actually own a basset clarinet in Bb in order to play "Parto, parto" from La Clemenza di Tito? or is this such a specialty item that only well endowed opera orchestras own for their players?

I guess the Bb basset clarinet can also be used for the 2nd clarinet in Cosi - but anything else?

thoughts?



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 Re: basset clarinet
Author: LarryBocaner 2017
Date:   2007-10-31 13:17

When we (National Symphony, Washington) performed La Clemenza with Hogwood, we borrowed a Bb bassett clarinet, owned by the late Marilyn Lauriente, from ('splain me that Lucy) the Hubbard Street Dance Theatre in Chicago! It was a very nice Buffet instrument, and beatifully played by my colleague Paul Cigan.



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 Re: basset clarinet
Author: Liquorice 
Date:   2007-10-31 13:31

I had one made for La Clamenza by Steven Fox. I sent him an old Buffet B-flat clarinet and he re-built it. He did a really good job, and it plays at least as well as my Buffet basset clarinet in A.

Now, if only I could afford to buy a basset horn in G to perform the Concerto fragment...

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 Re: basset clarinet
Author: Don Berger 
Date:   2007-10-31 13:57

?Would it be Heresy to suggest playing those "fragments" on an alto clarinet, my chalameau sounds great [to me]. Don

Thanx, Mark, Don

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 Re: basset clarinet
Author: Mark G Simon 
Date:   2007-10-31 15:56

One could use bassett clarinet in B flat for the occasional work which includes a low E flat, such as Berio's Lied.

Clarinetist, composer, arranger of music for clarinet ensemble

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 Re: basset clarinet
Author: cigleris 
Date:   2007-11-02 13:00

Howarth in London make Bb basset joints. There are a few of them around. You can play the other Mozart quintet for the Bb basset which he didn't finish. There is some comtempory music for Bb basset.

Peter Cigleris

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 Re: basset clarinet
Author: Chris P 
Date:   2007-11-02 14:40

"One could use bassett clarinet in B flat for the occasional work which includes a low E flat, such as Berio's Lied."

Or a full Boehm.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010

The opinions I express are my own.

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