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Originally published in The Clarinet 46/4 (September 2019). Printed copies of The Clarinet are available for ICA members.  Music Reviews: September 2019 STUDIES AND COLLECTIONS La belle aventure, Vols. 1–3. “Miniature works for great musicians in the making.” Three volumes of short pieces by composers Michalis Andronikou, Simon Bertrand, Éric Champagne, Hope Lee, Robert Lemay, Jean Lesage and Bruce Mather, compiled by Jean-Guy Boisvert. Doberman-Yppan, 2018. Vol. 1: $9.00 PDF, $10.00 print; Vol. 2: $11.70 PDF, $13.00 print; Vol. 3: $11.70 PDF, $13.00 print Clarinetist Jean-Guy Boisvert has made it his mission to promote works by fellow Canadians. To that end, he has commissioned nearly 20 composers to writeRead More →

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Originally published in The Clarinet 46/4 (September 2019). Printed copies of The Clarinet are available for ICA members.    Audio Reviews: September 2019 RECORDINGS Bass Clarinet Essentials. Matthias Höfer, bass clarinet; Manami Sano, piano. O. Schoeck: Sonate, Op. 41; P. Hindemith: Sonate; A. Busch: Suite in D Minor, Op. 37a; E. Bozza: Ballade; E. Krenek: Prelude and Sonatine; A. Hába: Suite, Op. 100; M. Mower: Sonatina; J. Horák: Interviewausschnitt. Bremen Radiohall Records, LC 84828. Total time 72:35. It is an exciting time if you are a bass clarinetist; new works and materials are consistently being generated by many performers eager to contribute to the repertory. Bass clarinetist Matthias HöferRead More →

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Originally published in The Clarinet 46/4 (September 2019). Printed copies of The Clarinet are available for ICA members.  Caroline Schleicher-Krähmer: The First Female Clarinet Soloist by Nicola Buckenmaier   “This artist delivered, supported by the Musikverein, a performance in which she fully demonstrated her abilities on the clarinet, the violin, and the piano and did leave no doubt that the first of these instruments is fully under her control, she masters great difficulties with even greater nonchalance, her sound is seldom outperformed; one believes to hear a harmonica of pure mood, and her level of piano will be rarely reached.”1 This is how a critic described the public concert ofRead More →

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Originally published in The Clarinet 46/4 (September 2019). Printed copies of The Clarinet are available for ICA members.  Audio Notes: September 2019 by Kip Franklin   The music of Johann Sebastian Bach is universally known. He is arguably the founding father of Western art music, having qualified and quantified the language of tonal harmony. The harmonic, melodic and musical models he established manifest themselves in the works of nearly all subsequent tonal composers. Unfortunately, clarinetists have no original works by Bach and instead must rely on transcriptions and adaptations in order to glean the experience of playing his music. In addition to the existing body of transcriptions and recordings,Read More →

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    Originally published in The Clarinet 46/4 (September 2019). Printed copies of The Clarinet are available for ICA members.  Martin Fröst: A Conversation with a Legend* by Erin Vander Wyst *Read the full interview in your copy of the September issue of The Clarinet or log-in to your ICA account to read it digitally. What is it, exactly, that elevates one to the status of “legend” in the clarinet world? Is it playing concerti with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Royal Concertgebouw, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra and so many others? Is it having released more than a dozen albums, including oneRead More →