For solo Clarinet in Bb and Ensemble.Clarinet and Piano Reduction.Commissioned by the Tanglewood Music Center through the generous support of the Mervyn Geffen M.D. and Norman Solomon M.D. New CommissionsFund.First performance by Brent Besner Clarinet and fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center August 2010.1. With Vigour2. Free and Enigmatic3. CalmoThere is usually some sort of extra-musicalsta…

Claude Debussy (1862-1918) was a French composer who is often associated with the early Impressionist movement. He is best known for his evocative Piano compositions from which these Two Pieces For ClarinetAnd Piano have been transcribed. The Golliwog’s Cakewalk is taken from a suite of works inspired by Debussy’s daughter and her toys. The cakewalk was a popular dance in the 1890’s and 190…

Clarinet Poem

This clarinet concerto was premiered in 1997 as part of the celebrations of the Year of Ninian one of the founding fathers of Christianity in Scotland. St Ninian the first bishop of Whithorn was believed to have arrived in Galloway in the south-west of the country in 397 nearly two centuries before St Columba landed on Iona. The three movements are based on three of the so-called Miracles of N…

26 fun duets for two beginner clarinets - from the pen of the prolific and esteemed educationalist and composer Paul Harris. Written entirely below the break. Accompanied by 26 short and witty poems which will appeal to both young and old!

M-708015-11-6-Settings of six of Edmund Clerihew's witty poems. Very popular with audiences. Duration: 8 mins.Grade: 6 - 8

This work was commissioned by Pembroke College Cambridge to celebrate the 600th anniversary of' their foundation. It was first performed at St. John's Smith Square London on the 18th of March 1998 by Emma Johnson and theVanbrugh Quartet.My idea in writing this piece was to depict a journey. The title comes from a poem of that name by W.H. Auden. I have used one or two simple musical ideas and tr…

Throne (1988) for Clarinet in Bb and Piano was composed by Poul Ruders on a commission from the Swedish clarinetist Håkon Rosenberg. Structurally it is organized in an arch form. Although it begins in the piano of the work can be considered as one long clarinet solo where the piano’s role is that of extending and mirroring the clarinet both in register and motif. As such the piano is trea…

Arrangeur: Matt Johnston. Par VAN EECHAUTE PROSPER. Prosper Van Eechaute (1904-1964), born in Ghent, was a Belgian composer, conductor and teacher. While a student at the Ghent Royal Conservatory, he was awarded first prize for cello, harmony, chamber music, counterpoint and fugue, in addition to the Emile Mathieu prize for composition in 1930. His Nachtpoema for Horn and Orchestra (or Piano), was…

Score and five parts (Flute Oboe Clarinet Bassoon Horn).Moderate level of difficulty.Night on Bald Mountain depicts a witches’ sabbath on St. John’s Day the night between 23 and 24 June. Its sections present the infernal noise of ghostly voices the chattering and quarrelling of witches the appearance of ghosts the dance of witches and demons the appearance of Satan the adoration and…

For Chamber Ensemble.Commissioned by the Hebrides Ensemble and first performed on their Scottish tour in March 2010.In Seven Pierrot Miniatures I took the Commedia dell’arte character Pierrot as my primary sourceof inspiration. Other more tenuous links to Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire also served as a starting point in forming the general shape of the work. The piece is cast in seven short mo…

The Shepherd on the Rock D. 965 for Voice Clarinet and Piano-The Shepherd on the Rock composed in the final year of Schubert’s life was in a certain sense a commission. The opera singer Anna Milder-Hauptmann the first Leonore in Beethoven’s Fidelio had asked Schubert in letters written between 1824 and 1825 to write a grand scene for voice for her. Yet he only finally started work on it …