We are often sooooo busy LEARNING (to PLAY) music that, at least in my case, I rarely have the time--especially now--to sift through the actual repertoire. Frankly, though, if you remember your school music library, a lot of it is CRAP, but there are definitely some gems that don't get their deserved attention. Do you dare to disagree? ;)
The videos below are interesting. Many I have never actually heard--just heard OF. So for what its worth, give a listen and educate yourselves, my fellow clarinet geeks, on some lesser known's!
These have all been lifted from Bob's collection. We discovered at the end of our second Clarinet Music Day that his collection of rep consisted mainly of cool secret clarinet music and my rep is totally standard. Plus about 50 copies of Mendelssohn Scherzo. <---Which still sucks.
Here you are, from Bob's pile:
Herbert Howells "Sonata"
Jean Jean "Carnival of Venice"
Ralph Herman "Clarinet on the Town"
Jules Mazellier "Fantasy-Ballet"
Tartini "Concertino"
Enesco "Roumanian Rhapsody No. 1"
Carlo Pässler "Concerto con Variazoni"
Artie Shaw "Concerto"
Hindemith "Concerto"
John Adams "Gnarly Buttons"
F. Devienne "Sonate"
Bozza "Fantasy Italienne"
Vaughan Williams "Six Studies on English Folk Songs"
Giampieri "Carnival of Venice"
Prokofiev Op. 94 "Sonata"
John Ireland "Fantasy Sonata"
Sean Hickey "Portage IV"
Honegger "Sonatine"
Miguel del Aguila "Concerto"
Skrowaczewski "Concerto"
Krommer Concerto op. 36 E-Flat
Cahuzac "Variations Sur Un Air Du Pays D'Oc"
Rossini "Sonata No. 3"
I prefer the Prokofiev on the violin, but perhaps I'm biased ;). The Ireland piece is quite beautiful! You should play it.
ReplyDeleteP.S. - Is that the BoCo library in the photo?? xo, Geeta
ReplyDeleteI agree about the Ireland piece. You'd sound fantastic playing that. I have the CD of Thea King playing the Howell's Sonata if you ever want to borrow it. Lots of English happiness on that collection...even though Thea doesn't have the greatest tone in the world the music is good and the CD is worth owning. :)
ReplyDeleteOh and incidentally, your collection is just fine. :) For the amount of random stuff I own, I should have much much more standard rep... ;)
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