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 Academy Clarinet Quartet CD - Free Download
Author: SamKaestner 
Date:   2008-03-17 13:50

If anyone is interested, my clarinet quartet, The Academy Clarinet Quartet from the West Point Band has our CD available for free download. Just go here:

http://www.usma.edu/band/recordings/acq.htm

Track info is below.

Enjoy,
--Sam


Quartet No. 10 in Eb, Op. 74 (1809) Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
arr. SFC John Parrette

Poco adagio - Allegro (8:11)
Adagio ma non troppo (8:21)
Presto - Più presto quasi prestissimo (4:35)
Allegretto con Variazione (7:28)

Quartet No. 2, Op. 17 (1917) Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
arr. SSG Samuel Kaestner

Moderato (9:21)
Allegro molto capriccioso (8:10)
Lento (9:12)

Academy Clarinet Quartet
MSG Rachel Grasso, third clarinet
SFC Shawn Herndon, second clarinet
SFC John Parrette, first clarinet
SSG Samuel Kaestner, bass clarinet

Sam Kaestner
West Point Band Clarinetist
www.samkaestner.com

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 Re: Academy Clarinet Quartet CD - Free Download
Author: crnichols 
Date:   2008-03-17 14:12

Beautiful playing! I'm so happy to hear string quartets performed by a fine clarinet quartet.

Christopher Nichols, D.M.A.
Assistant Professor of Clarinet
University of Delaware

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 Re: Academy Clarinet Quartet CD - Free Download
Author: DavidBlumberg 
Date:   2008-03-17 15:05

hey, could somebody make that link clickable? I want to check it out but this iPod doesn't highlight text to make a link.

http://www.SkypeClarinetLessons.com


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 Re: Academy Clarinet Quartet CD - Free Download
Author: GBK 
Date:   2008-03-17 15:28

DavidBlumberg wrote:

> hey, could somebody make that link clickable? I want to check
> it out but this iPod doesn't highlight text to make a link.


http://www.usma.edu/band/recordings/acq.htm



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 Re: Academy Clarinet Quartet CD - Free Download
Author: SamKaestner 
Date:   2008-03-17 15:43

Also,

If anyone is interested, sheet music of these arrangements and many more are available here:

http://www.clarionmusical.com/products/music.html

---Sam

Sam Kaestner
West Point Band Clarinetist
www.samkaestner.com

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 Re: Academy Clarinet Quartet CD - Free Download
Author: DavidBlumberg 
Date:   2008-03-17 18:44

Sam, nice arrangement!

David Jones did the exact same Bartok arrangment that the Army Field Band Quartet played at ClarFest when it was in MD (Va possibly) a while back.

I have a recording of them doing it and it sounds identical though the speeds are quicker for the Allegro molto capriccioso ( 7:31 )
Then again the quartet is the quartet so the notes would be the same.

That mvt is fun to work out to.

Great stuff!

http://www.SkypeClarinetLessons.com


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 Re: Academy Clarinet Quartet CD - Free Download
Author: FrankM 
Date:   2008-03-18 18:25

Very nice...Thanks for sharing.

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 Re: Academy Clarinet Quartet CD - Free Download
Author: glin 
Date:   2008-03-18 21:34

David,

Do you mean Brian Jones instead of David Jones?

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 Re: Academy Clarinet Quartet CD - Free Download
Author: DavidBlumberg 
Date:   2008-03-18 21:43

Nope, it reads David Jones on the recording cover.

http://www.SkypeClarinetLessons.com


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 Re: Academy Clarinet Quartet CD - Free Download
Author: DavidBlumberg 
Date:   2008-03-18 22:47

If I recall he played/plays in the DC Opera Co.

http://www.SkypeClarinetLessons.com


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 Re: Academy Clarinet Quartet CD - Free Download
Author: Adam W 
Date:   2008-03-19 14:08

Very nice playing.

Thank you so much for posting this!

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 Re: Academy Clarinet Quartet CD - Free Download
Author: SamKaestner 
Date:   2008-03-26 02:09

Thanks so much for all the positive feedback.

We are expecting to receive our first commission later this week, a clarinet quartet by Dana Wilson. We will be giving its first performance at the Oklahoma Clarinet Symposium this summer. Hopefully we will have a chance to do a studio recording of the new work later this year as well.

Sam Kaestner
West Point Band Clarinetist
www.samkaestner.com

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 Re: Academy Clarinet Quartet CD - Free Download
Author: complementinversion 
Date:   2008-04-02 17:58

A bit of a late reply sorry (only just joined the forum, first post). Really enjoyed your version of the Bartok quartet, prefer it to most string performances I have heard (but then I am biased toward woodwind :)

Thanks for putting it up for download (will have to check the beethoven too).

I posted it on my blog (hope you dont mind, will remove it if you do) also linked it to a lecture about Bartok`s second quartet from Gresham College

http://complementinversion.blogspot.com/2008/04/bartok-quartet-no2-clarinets-us.html

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 Re: Academy Clarinet Quartet CD - Free Download
Author: Old Geezer 
Date:   2008-04-02 21:55

You guys play OK! Having the viola part done by an A clarinet is a neat idea.

The Bartok suits such an arrangment best. You guys are living in clarinet heaven...with a pension too!

Good luck and thanks for the download!!

Clarinet Redux

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