Christopher Ball's beautiful arrangements of four folksongs are simple but extremely effective ideal for showing off the lyrical talents of the performer. They have been recorded by Leslie Craven(Principal Clarinettist BBC National Orchestra of Wales) on his recent CD 'Expressions' (on the Clarinet Classics label). Over the Hills and Far Away has been selected for the 2014-2017 ABRSM Grade 5 syl…

Four characteristic pieces for clarinet and piano; Ballade Croon Song Intermezzo Scherzo.

These six songs Op.154 originally scored for baritone violin and piano have been adapted for medium voice clarinet and piano by Chris Allen and work incredibly well. An excellent addition to the repertoire for this particularcombination. The set includes a piano score a vocal score and a clarinet part.Contents: Abend-Feier Jagdlied Töne Erlkönig Der Spielmann und seine Geige …

Solo Bass Clarinet-Claude Debussy's Syrinx for Bass Clarinet. Despite being written originally for Flute this transcription of Syrinx by Helen Paskins works beautifully for the Bass Clarinet; the timbre of theinstrument really resonates with the haunting melancholy of the melody. 'Syrinx was written in 1913 by Debussy for the flute as incidental music to Gabriel Mourey's play Psyché. It was firs…

“I wrote Rhapsody in 2000 but it remained unperformed and so I gave a copy to John Orford the Bassoonist and Professor at the Royal Academy of Music. Some years later to my surprise and delight hecontacted me to ask if it could be the set piece for The Florence Woodbridge Prize. On the morning of Monday the 27th June 2016 I went to The Academy where I heard a succession of fine performance…

As well as the more familiar composers James Hook and Thomas Arne (who wrote Rule Britannia) this collection of 12 English melodies includes tunes by the less well known William Reeve William Shieldand Thomas Arne's son Michael. Charles Dibdin's 'Tom Bowling' which Sir Henry Wood worked into his 'Fantasia on British Sea Songs' - a corner stone of the Last Night of the Proms is also here.The Gr…

arranged for clarinet and piano by Russel Denwood-This is the piano reduction of an important and substantial work for clarinet and strings (which has also been published in a new corrected edition - E643). It was written in 1895 when the composer was still a student atthe Royal College of Music. His composition teacher Charles Villiers Stanford was so impressed by the piece that he took it wit…

for clarinet in A 2 violins viola & violoncello-A new corrected edition of an important and substantial work which has been constructed from the existing set of parts by Russell Denwood.It was written in 1895 when the composer was still a student at the Royal Collegeof Music. His composition teacher Charles Villiers Stanford was so impressed by the piece that he took it with him on a visit to…

'My Concerto for Recorder Strings and Percussion was commissioned for Evelyn Nallen and the Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra and composed in 1979. I was much absorbed by composing concertante works at the time and in factwrote six concertos that year

Christopher Ball is a British composer conductor and Clarinettist Born in Leeds England in 1936. This challenging work by Ball has three movements dedicated to Ben Norbury Adam Walker and GarySchocker.