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In 2016, she released Flying Solo, solo clarinet literature dating from 1919 through 2000. In his review of the album, Anthony J. Costa writes, 'The styles hint at a variety of influences including blues (Turnage), ragtime (Stravinsky), commedia dell’Arte (Cahuzac), poetry of Wordsworth (Roxburg), nature (Messaien), mythology (Crosse) and ...
Three Pieces for Solo Clarinet is a solo instrumental work by Igor Stravinsky.The work was composed in 1918. [1] It was published in 1919, shortly after the completion of his Suite from L'Histoire du Soldat, as a thank-you gift to the philanthropist and arts patron Werner Reinhart, who was also an amateur clarinetist. [2]
To Be or Not to Be (1942); music also by Werner R. Heymann; Five Graves to Cairo (1943) Sahara (1943) So Proudly We Hail! (1943); music also by Edward Heyman; The Woman of the Town (1943) Dark Waters (1944) Double Indemnity (1944) The Hour Before the Dawn (1944) Blood on the Sun (1945) Lady on a Train (1945) The Lost Weekend (1945) The Man in ...
Michael Lowenstern (born August 23, 1968) is an American musician, composer and educator, specializing in bass clarinet.He is well known for his YouTube channel Earspasm [1] and for his many recordings featuring the bass clarinet as a solo instrument in classical, jazz, and electronica formats.
These Konzertstücke are virtuoso concertante works, but the Sonata in E-flat major, written by Mendelssohn in 1824, when he was only 15, is genuine chamber music: the clarinet and the piano are both used equally as a melody and an accompaniment instrument, but the demands on the clarinettist are far more modest than in opp. 113 and 114.
Fantasy-Sonata is a piece in E-flat major for clarinet and piano composed by John Ireland in 1943. The work is Ireland's only extant piece for solo clarinet and one of his last major compositions before his retirement. [1] It is dedicated to Frederick Thurston and was premiered by Thurston and Ireland in January 1944.
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Cavallini played on a six-key boxwood clarinet, which was considered an "outdated" instrument. [4] Cavallini was described as the "Paganini of the clarinet". [2] His playing inspired Verdi to compose a clarinet solo and cadenza in his 1862 La forza del destino, and led Panizza to include a set of variations for clarinet in his The Challenge of ...