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 Re: THE IMPOSSIBLE! Clarinet solos?
Author: seabreeze 
Date:   2017-01-05 05:38

Some very unorthodox and genuinely modern clarinet compositions from the last few decades are exciting to play and to hear and communicate well with audiences. The Unsuk Chin concerto, the Boulez Dialogue De Ombre Double, and the Lindberg Clarinet Quintet I would place in that category though many seem unable to make neither head nor tail of these pieces. I've heard only one performance of the Chin, 2 of the Lindberg, and 3 of the Boulez. It does seem to me that in each, the tyranny of completely controlled serial structure on the one hand and random chance on the other have been successfully avoided. In the three performances of the Boulez I heard, each was distinctly different and gave much room to the soloist to phrase meaningfully and gain purchase over the work. In these pieces, the soloist is certainly not thrown back into the role of absolute beginner. There is ample space for virtuosity and expression. The same can be said for the Lindberg. But in some contemporary pieces, the performer seems to be trapped in a senseless torture chamber, sentenced not only to "execute" the unplayable but also to BE symbolically or sonically executed in the process.

As example of an effective and communicative modern work of some difficulty, here are two performances back to back of the Lindberg Clarinet Quintet (one by Olivier Vivaros and one by Ashley Smith:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Lindberg+Clarinet+Quintet.

Then there are also contemporary virtuoso pieces designed to show off the ample talents of players like Frost and sometimes deliberately drawing on familiar scale patterns and chord progressions to gain audience (or pro musicians') approval.



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