SKU: HL.48185327
UPC: 888680858278. 9x12 inches.
Ivan Jevtic: Contrastes (Clarinet & Piano).
SKU: IS.CP6302EM
ISBN 9790365063024.
The Swiss-born clarinet virtuoso Matthias Muller is one of the most versatile and inspiring clarinet players and composers of his generation. This concerto is modelled on classical forms and deploys an aesthetic that is close to the Second Age of Modernism, which does not seek renewal in external appearance but looks for own characteristic ways in the internal structure. The harmony is based on a specific chord structure, exposed in the first part and set to shape in the next parts. The technical Clarity seeks contrasts in motivic and thematic processing of the material and in pronounced variations. This concerto has been recorded by the composer on the NEOS label (20904).
SKU: HL.48181570
UPC: 888680843960. 9x12 inches.
“Gabriel Grovlez (1879-1944) studied under Gabriel Fauré at the Paris Conservatoire. His compositions proved to be extremely versatile, from Operas and Ballets to solo works. Grovlez's Sarabande and Allegro is a sublime addition to the Clarinet repertoire. Much of the composer's works show neo-classical features, which is also the case in Sarabande and Allegro. Where the texture is predominantly melody dominated homophony, perfect cadences are frequently heard and modulations to related keys occur. Grovlez's C minor Sarabande is in a steady, triple meter, superbly contrasted by the fast Allegro, composed in the relative major. All these features make for an enjoyable and delightful performance!&rdquo.
SKU: HL.44006955
ISBN 9789043125116. UPC: 884088153267. 9.0x12.0x0.075 inches. English-German-French-Dutch.
Safari is a fascinating three-movement suite for clarinet and piano or clarinet and piano composed by Allen Vizzutti. The movements of this musical Safari have the descriptive titles: The Sea, A Clarinettist's Dream and Have a good trip! Safari is een Afrikaans georienteerde suite die bestaat uit drie contrasterende delen: The Sea, A Flutist's Dream en Timbuktu. Een kleurrijke reis!Safari heisst diese Suite aus drei Satzen fur Flote und Klavier oder Klarinette und Klavier vonAllen Vizzutti. Die Satze dieser musikalischen Safari tragen die Titel The Sea, A Clarinetist's Dream, bzw. A Flutist's Dream und Timbuktu. Gute Reise! Safari est une suite africaine en trois mouvements contrastes : The Sea (La mer) * A Flutist's/Clarinetist's Dream (Le reve du flutiste/clarinettiste) * Timbuktu (Tombouctou). Un voyage plein de couleurs ! Una suite in tre movimenti per flauto e pianoforte, o clarinetto e pianoforte. I movimenti sono intitolati: The Sea, A Clarinetist's Dream, A Flutist's Dream e Timbuktu.
SKU: BT.DHP-1165740-401
ISBN 9789043151511. English-German-French-Dutch.
Cette oeuvre en deux mouvements pour clarinette et orchestre fut commandée par Musica Reservata vof, Belgique, et est dédiée Eddy Vanoosthuyse, un bon ami et confrère du compositeur. Elle connut du succès sa première mondiale le 10 décembre 2008 Salt Lake City (Etats-Unis), interprétée par l’orchestre Utah Philharmonia sous la direction de Robert Baldwin, avec Eddy Vanoosthuyse comme soliste. Par la suite, l’oeuvre fut mise de côté pendant quelques années, surtout parce que les agendaschargés des deux protagonistes ne leur permettaient pas de trouver le temps pour un enregistrement discographique. Pour finir, l’oeuvre fut enfin enregistrée en juin 2015 Nagoya (Japon), avec le Central Aichi Symphony Orchestra, mené par l’étoilemontante vénézolane, SergioRosales. La même semaine, le 12 juin, l’oeuvre fut présentée en concert pour la première fois au Japon par les mêmes interprètes, et connut ici aussi un grand succès. Après Concerto Doppio pour deux clarinettes et orchestre cordes, composé en 2001,voici la deuxième oeuvre de concert de Jan Van der Roost qui met la clarinette en vedette.Le premier mouvement, Doloroso e Contemplativo, transmet le côté sérieux de la clarinette et, par conséquent, il n’y figure presque pas de virtuosité ou de spectacle. Au contraire, l’orchestration colorée et variée qui est entrelacée autour de lapartie solo est bien plus qu’un simple accompagnement, et prend la forme de partenairemusical, d’importance comparable au soliste. Une introduction un peu mystérieuse mène une première apogée orchestrale en passant par des cellules musicales ascendantes. Ensuite on entend l’entrée du soliste, d’abord par des idées musicales plusfragmentaires, puis par des lignes mélodiques plus longues. L’orchestre entre en dialogue avec le soliste, et son instrumentation délicate et colorée crée un parfait encadrement musical. Vers la fin, l’atmosphère du début est réaffirmée, et lesoliste finit par la même note par laquelle il avait commencé.Le deuxième mouvement, Giocoso e Con Bravura, est une toute autre histoire : ici, le côté virtuose, et parfois presqu’acrobatique, de la clarinette est exploré. Des cascades imposantes et continuelles de notes demandent une dextérité exceptionnelleau soliste, ce qui, un certain moment, et « récompensé » par l’orchestre, par un clin d’oeil au « Hallelujah » de Handel vraiment mérité après ces feux d’artifice ! De temps en temps, l’instrument solo présente une phrase humoristique : laclarinette ne peut pas que chanter, briller et pleurer, mais aussi rire et plaisanter. Plusieurs passages sont presque caricaturaux ! La palette variée de cet instrument magnifique est démontrée parfaitement, parfois avec un brin d’humour oud’ironie. En effet, les deux mouvements contrastants de ce concerto démontrent les différentes facettes de l’instrument qui s’est établi sur la scène de musique classique ainsi que la musique légère (quel nom peu prometteur !). Dans le deuxièmemouvement, rapide pour la plupart du temps, l’orchestre est nouveau traité de manière créative et variée, offrant une palette généreuse de couleurs : sans enlever l’attention de la partie solo difficile, on peut dire que l’orchestre n’est pas qu’ l’arrière-plan, mais saisit l’occasion de briller en même temps. Pourtant, les dernières notes sont accordées la clarinette : après un tuttiorchestral énergique, le soliste conclut l’oeuvre par trois notes courtes de pianissimo comme si, de façon subtile, il voulait avoir le dernier mot. Après les nombreuses notes jouées par le clarinettiste, cette conclusion modeste estune fin surprenante d’une oeuvre au style plutôt traditionnel, qui démontre clairement la passion du compositeur pour cette merveilleuse combinaison instrumentale.br> Un merci particulier Peter Knockaert pour cette réduction pour piano duClarinet Concerto, qui fut créée pour le 4th International Clarinet Competition Ghent en 2017.
SKU: PR.114419940
ISBN 9781491133934. UPC: 680160683499. 9 x 12 inches.
Responding to demand from clarinetists, Schocker created this adaptation of his best-loved work, customizing it for the clarinet’s richness of contrasting registers. Composed as a recital piece for his own performances as a flutist, Gary Schocker’s Regrets and Resolutions has been a standard in that instrument’s repertoire for over 30 years. Inspired by an 80-year-old friend’s birthday, the composer has written: “I wrote the Regrets imagining what it might be like to look back over 80 years. ‘What if I’d made different choices?’ ‘What if ...?’ The Resolutions is a forward-thinking movement, very energetic and positive, except for a brief looking-back, questioning (the 1st movement is recapped and grows), after which the music plunges back into the rhythmic finale.”.
SKU: HL.48024204
ISBN 9781784542672. UPC: 888680751647. 9x12 inches.
The composer states: “Acequia Madre demonstrates an approach which was somewhat new to the style of my musical expression at the time of its composition [2012]: structuring a work with the focus on its melodic aspects. I drew inspiration from other creative artists through one of my 'rituals': I surrounded myself with the scores of composers who, for one reason or another, were on my mind at the time, like Iannis Xenakis, Alban Berg's 'Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano,' and 'Contrasts for violin, clarinet and piano' by Bela Bartok, plus Schubert's haunting final 'String Quartet No. 15.' Conquering technical difficulties is something I find particularly rewarding when playing acoustic instruments: fully aware that today's electronics can triumph over a composer's most demanding technical challenges, I love the idea of performers encountering their instruments with virtuosity ... doing something that seems to defy physical boundaries.&rdquo.
SKU: AP.1-ADV8116
English.
A virtuoso addition to the concert repertoire that focuses on the clarinet and its versatility: Oriental sounds and klezmer touches mix with the classical sonata form. The rhythmic first movement is contrasted with elegiac melodies in the second movement and with a scherzo-like finale.
SKU: AP.1-ADV8319
UPC: 805095083194. English. Traditional.
This arrangement features two contrasting traditional klezmer tunes. Originally played at weddings, Mazl Tov Shver Un Shviger (Congratulations to the In-Laws) is a medium tempo dance with several evocative sections. Koyln (Coal) is quick and lively. Titles: Mazl Tov Shver un Shviger (Congratulations to the In-Laws) * Koyln (Coal).
SKU: PR.164002390
UPC: 680160038091.
I became interested in the work of Plato through my friend and collaborator, the writer and philosopher Paul Woodruff. Paul's new translation, with Alexander Nehamas, of the Symposium gave me insights into ancient Greek ways of thinking about Love, Beauty, and Wisdom -- and managed to keep the earthy, and often bawdy side of it all in full view. But their new translation of Plato's later dialogue Phaedrus went even further: the beauty of the speeches is breathtaking, and the discourse itself is enough to keep one awake at night. Basically the Great Speech of Socrates in the Phaedrus dialogue has to do with the place of Eros in the world, and with the conflict in the soul between fleshly pleasure and philosophic discovery. I will not attempt to encapsulate this brilliant discourse in a program note: suffice it to say that reading it gave rise to my two-sided work for clarinet, violin, and piano, Phaedrus. The first movement represents the Philosophic life, and is thus subtitled Apollo's Lyre (Invocation and Hymn). It begins with an unaccompanied melody for the clarinet, which (after a pair of harp-like flourishes for the piano, expands into an accompanied canon. The voices in the dialogue (clarinet and violin) follow each other by a prescribed number of beats, but the music is totally devoid of any meter at all. The piano, representing the lyre, accompanies this lyric love-feast with repeated strummed chords. The canon has three large sections, and ends with violin echoing the unaccompanied clarinet invocation as the sound of the lyre fades. The second movement, called Dionysus' Dream-Orgy (Ritual Dance) presents, after a brief introduction, another kind of unmetered music. Rather than long lyric flights of philosophic song, however, this time we hear a unison dance of unbridled energy and sensual transport. The piece soon forms itself into a loose arch form, with contrasting metered dance sections divided by the unison unmetered orgy tune. Midway through the movement, Apollo's melody returns from the first movement, but it is a temporary reminiscence. The orgiastic dance returns, reaches a climax, and ends with a stomping of feet. While Plato asserts that a proper balance between lust and reason is necessary in all men, he (naturally) gives the nod to Philosophy as the better choice in which to live. Not so in my music: the two sides are meant to coexist and to complement each other. No sides are taken. Phaedrus was commissioned of the Verdehr Trio by Michigan State University. It is dedicated to the Vedehr Trio with great affection and admiration.
SKU: HL.14013351
ISBN 9781844497621. 8.25x11.75x0.343 inches.
Gregson's Clarinet Concerto was completed in 1994, by commission for the BBC, and was first performed by the BBC Philharmonic with Michael Collins in Manchester, April 1994 (later recorded on Chandos CHAN 10105). The writing is highly challenging, pushing the instrument and its performer to the limits with some formidable glissandi and stark contrasts. This edition features a piano reduction of Gregson's orchestral material.
SKU: CF.MXE5
ISBN 9780825853401. UPC: 798408053406. 9 X 12 inches.
Commissioned in 1998, this chamber piece is truly unique experience! A short piece (18 minutes), the work is derived from the composer’s fascination with a theory from quantum physics stating that time is fluid and that matter can exist concurrently in one place. To encompass this idea, the composer asks that a passage of music that he wrote when he was 15 be pre-recorded and played during the second movement (Desolato). The music of the adult David Carlson is coupled with music written thirty years ago, creating a sonic continuum. The highly charged, rhythmically aggressive music of the first movement is contrasted by the nostalgic slow mood of the second movement. The final movement is both energetic and passionate, which brings this imaginative work to a positive conclusion.
SKU: B7.B363
8.5x11 inches.
This riveting work showcases the piccolo and clarinet, exploring their different registers and colors. It provides exciting contrasts between lyrical and technical sections. Night Flight was commissioned for the 1999 National Flute Association Convention in Atlanta and was premiered at the event by Rebecca Arrenson, piccolo; Robert E. Price, clarinet; & Paula Peace, piano. Recorded by Lois Herbine, piccolo; Allison Herz, clarinet; and Charles Abramovic, piano on the critically-acclaimed Crystal Records CD TAKE WING.
SKU: SU.80111202
Violin & Clarinet Duration: ' Composed: 1972 Published by: Soundspells Productions Includes set of 2 scores The Garden of My Father's House (1973) is a dramatic rhapsody for violin and clarinet duo. The composer wrote the following: I composed THE GARDEN OF MY FATHER'S HOUSE in 1972 in memory of my father, who was my first music teacher. Although he played many instruments and loved to sing, he could not read a note of music. When I was very young he would sing Gypsy songs, Yiddish folk-songs and Rumanian tunes to me and I would play them back on my clarinet, often with ornaments and variations. Sometimes he would accompany me on the piano; he had a few favorite chords which always seemed to pop up no matter what the tune. The piece is a musical ritual, based on a C-sharp drone, or pedal note, that is heard without interruption, across several ranges, throughout the piece. The violin's drone tremolos, often combined with perfect fifths and quarter-tone tunings, imply the key of Csharp minor. The violin part is always rubato — lyrical, expressive and frequently very passionate. But, most importantly, the violin is always tonal. The clarinet, on the other hand, is atonal, its pitches drawn from the twelve-tone row that I used to write my Cycles of Infinities. The style of the clarinet is contemporary, using wide-range intervals, biting accents and unusual instrumental effects, including fluttertonguing and quarter-tone trills. In combining the 'contrasting' roles of the two instruments, I sought to create a musical ritual-game that would draw energy and bits of information from the polarized instruments. The language of the piece calls the listener's attention to the cogent features of both instrumental personalities in a manner that is somewhat similar to the way in which Yiddish combines German and Hebrew. The drone becomes more and more magnetic and begins to join the parts together until they become one in the final C-sharp unison.
SKU: CL.083-0063-08
There are plenty of musical contrasts and teaching opportunities in this work. It's great for a student who needs a challenge.
SKU: KN.11027
UPC: 822795110272.
Giuseppe Verdi's famous aria from Rigoletto is now available for young woodwind soloists and makes an excellent choice for contest literature. Providing essential exposure to articulation and dynamic contrasts, each of these editions also include the exciting challenge of a brief and technically appropriate closing cadenza. Duration 2:00.
SKU: HL.48024203
ISBN 9781784542689. 9.0x12.0x0.127 inches.
The composer states: Acequia Madre demonstrates an approach which was somewhat new to the style of my musical expression at the time of its composition [2012]: structuring a work with the focus on its melodic aspects. I drew inspiration from other creative artists through one of my 'rituals': I surrounded myself with the scores of composers who, for one reason or another, were on my mind at the time, like Iannis Xenakis, Alban Berg's 'Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano,' and 'Contrasts for violin, clarinet and piano' by Bela Bartok, plus Schubert's haunting final 'String Quartet No. 15.' Conquering technical difficulties is something I find particularly rewarding when playing acoustic instruments: fully aware that today's electronics can triumph over a composer's most demanding technical challenges, I love the idea of performers encountering their instruments with virtuosity ... doing something that seems to defy physical boundaries..
SKU: HL.50601598
8.0x11.75 inches.
The catalogue of Edison Denisov's works includes 16 concertos. It was a genre to which he returned time and again throughout his life, from the Concerto for Cello and Orchestra of 1972 to the Double Concerto for Flute, Clarinet and Orchestra of 1996.In Denisov's music the role of the soloist, or rather the protagonist, is extraordinarily important, not so much for its virtuosity as for its confessional character. The solo part is a monologue distinguished by poetic diction and a very personal message from thecomposer. The dramaturgical conception of the Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra, a reworking of the Viola Concerto of 1986, draws on traditional sonata form, thereby reaffirming the ubiquitous classicism in Denisov's thought. In this late work, we find all the typical features of his style: sinuous melodic lines layered into dense contrapuntal textures, and an interplay of orchestral colours, with pure sonorities contrasting with complex mixtures of sounds. It is a perfect dramaturgy that governs the evolution of the music to the very end. The first movement assumes the role of a sonata-allegro, with the standard formal sections of exposition, development,recapitulation and coda. The second movement is an Adagio for strings. The third takes the form of a little contrasting intermezzo that introduces both new thematic material and a new range of colours. Here tunefulness gives way to pointillism enriched with soniceffects. The only movement with a virtuosic solo part, its nervousness and inner tension set it worlds apart from the second and fourth movements that surround it. The fourth movement assumes the traditional form of a final set of variations. It is the dramaturgical and semantic heart of the concerto. The theme of the variations is Franz Schubert's Impromptu in B-flat major, op. 142, which in this case is 'born' from the celesta as the product of a dodecaphonic string cluster. This finale represents Denisov's homage to his great mentor, Schubert's music being for him a symbol of eternal and universal beauty. 'The attentive listener', Denisov stressed, 'will recognise that the Impromptu theme is already suggested very slowly in the course of the three preceding movements, not only thematically, but also psychologically. That's what makes the appearance of the Schubert theme sound so natural.' The variations relate to the variation genre less in their form than in their spiritual and conceptual metamorphoses. It is, one might say, 'music round about Schubert'. (Ekaterina Kouprovskaia-Denisova).
