A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - from 6 years of Clarinet practice

A piece for instrumentalists with 6 years of musical experience.

A piece for instrumentalists with 6 years of musical experience.

A piece for instrumentalists with 6 years of musical experience.

" As the title suggests, this piece focuses primarily on the octave leaps and chromatism. The arpeggio sequences serve as a leitmotif throughout the piece. " - Alain LOPEZ

A Piece for students from 7 years of instrument practice

" Bright and colorful composition, with melodic lines based on a set of syncopes and provided with a cadence. It is intended for interpreters with technical and musical levels already confirmed. " - Alain LOPEZ

A Piece for students from 7 years of instrument practice

A piece for instrumentalists with 7 years of musical experience.

A piece for instrumentalists with 7 years of musical experience.

" Built as a series of small paintings, this suite features a portrait of Paris, the "City of Light", that will make you travel through time and space. Good scenery... good work! " - Patrice BERNARD

A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Clarinet for 4 years onwards

A composition with a nice melody, from 6 years of instrument practice

" What else can be better than a Samba to tackle the Syncopation with fun! In the second part, the player will have to articulate the syncopation to become a credible Samba player! one could also add the sounds of a "reco-reco" or a "pandeiro" (small Brasilian drums) to make this Samba even more captivating! " - Alain LOPEZ

An original Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Clarinet for 6 years onwards

A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Clarinet for 4 years onwards

" The title of this Piece is a pun on Cubans rhythms. The opposition between the tone and used homonymous tone, as well as the rhythmic formula chosen on theme "B" are a typical feature of South America music. Concerning the melody, it is a stylistics composition on quarter note triplets! " - Alain LOPEZ

A Piece for auditions for students playing clarinet for 3 years onwards.

" A little nod to French music, with effects of virtuosity and interpretation. " - Jean-Michel MAURY

A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for musicians with 7 years of instrument practice

A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Clarinet for 2 years onwards

A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Clarinet for 3 years onwards

I strongly encourage the thorough study of the work of Jean-Baptiste ARBAN, among which his famous Twelve Celebrated Fantasies and Air Varies. These 12 tunes, among which this piece, include all difficulties faced by a trumpet player to control his instrument. I had, together with Mireille CAPET MERAUD, lot of fun doing the recording of these Airs Varies, and I wish you a lot of joy and fun to re-discover them in this brand new version... - Franck PULCINI

A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Clarinet for 3 years onwards

A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Clarinet for 2 years onwards

A superb opus with a subtile melody - for students playing clarinet for 5 years onwards

" Easy variations on a famous popular theme. For an auditon or exam on folk songs, and with a piano accompaniement adapted to the young musicians " - Pascal PROUST
A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Clarinet for 4 years onwards

" For an audition after few weeks of clarinet practice. This piece also allows the student to listen to piano accompaniment." - Jean-Michel MAURY

" To play chromatic fingering and feel the pulse of 12/8. " - Jean-Michel MAURY
A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Clarinet for 1 year onwards

" A piece to dance around the fire and around the teacher, from the second year of practice. " - Jean-Michel MAURY

" A piece to tell a story of knight with the clarinet... " - Jean-Michel MAURY
A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Clarinet for 2 years onwards

" A piece with a little choreography to practice articulations, phrasing and nuances, from the third year of practice. " - Jean-Michel MAURY

" A tarentella to play from the third year of practice. " - Jean Michel MAURY

" A tender piece for a concert or an exam, from the fourth year of practice. " - Jean-Michel MAURY

" A good exercise for the rhythmic consistency and endurance during the first cycle " - Jean Michel MAURY

" For an examination of the 4th year of instrument practice, this piece highlights the knowledge of rhythms, articulations and registers shift. " - Jean Michel MAURY

" This piece is an evocation of the musical atmosphere of the "Roaring Twenties" where the swing was sweeping in smoky cellars of Saint-Germain-des-Près quarter in Paris. " - Patrice BERNARD

" This languorous waltz takes us back to the "style 1900" that Erik Satie, regular customer of "Lapin Agile" and "Moulin de la Galette", a few blocks away from the studio of Pablo Picasso, appreciated so much. " - Patrice BERNARD

" Built in the seventeenth century, somptuous parties were organized in the Luxembourg Palace and its beautiful gardens. This piece evokes this period in the Baroque style of Antonio Vivaldi. " - Patrice BERNARD

" The name of this dance meant "dance stirring shoulders" (1901). It became very popular and emblematic of this district of Paris from the interwar period. " - Patrice BERNARD

" What could be more romantic than a walk on the banks of the Seine, punctuated by a jazz tune? " - Patrice BERNARD

" This piece is an echo of Paris Universal Exposition of 1887, for which the Eiffel tower was built, and which saw also the birth of cinema by the Lumière brothers. " - Patrice BERNARD

" Melodic composition targeted to "young" students where rhythms of half note, quarter note, eighth note, on beat, are exclusively used. " - Alain LOPEZ

A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Clarinet for 1 year onwards

" A rhythmically simple composition that I wanted to be very melodic to encourage students to become familiar with repeated notes. " - Alain LOPEZ

A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Clarinet for 2 years onwards

" This bluesy ballad proposes an easy approach of doted quaver followed by semiquaver and helps going one step further since this solemn rhythm is always followed by 2 quavers! " - Alain LOPEZ

" Blues with simple rhythmic cells and small ascending and descending chromatic movements. This piece will allow you to familiarize yourself with 'swing', supported by the piano accompaniment, imitating the horse's trot. " - Alain LOPEZ

A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Clarinet for 2 years onwards

" Latin music divided into three parts of 32 mes. each: the first is for students with 1-2 years of experience (only long values and small chromatisms are used), the second is for those who have 2 or 3 (add dotted quarter / eighth notes and intervals of fourths), the third is for those at the end of the first cycle (flow from eighth in addition). This piece can "follow" the students for three years and / or allow 3 students with different levels to play together. " - Alain LOPEZ

A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Clarinet from between 1 and 4 years

" How to make a good music recipe with few ingredients? Take some quavers, long values and swing the harmonies... " - Alain LOPEZ

A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Clarinet from 3 years onwards

" The wind carries away the yellow leaves fallen on the pavement, the cafes put tables and chairs in... I evoke here a fall tour that is difficult to do quietly in Paris. How to take your time in this city with so many streets to cross (musical phrases of 3 measures), cars or buses to avoid (musical phrases starts on the second time). While the chestnut vendors are on subway entrances, how not to hurry like others (theme B) to 'catch' the subway... " - Alain LOPEZ

A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Clarinet from 3 years onwards

" This composition was created for young musicians (mostly teenagers), and will be played as a pop song. Indeed, its texture (silky and polished) is related to the use of triplets and harmonic series built on the principle of 'verse / chorus'. Its tempo (close to the human body beat) and duration (3 minutes) will make it the hit of the summer! " - Alain LOPEZ

A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Clarinet for 4 years onwards

" AABA form of Latin music which gives meaning to the work of opposed nuances. On the pedagogical side, some unusual rhythms at this level are proposed. " - Alain LOPEZ

A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Clarinet for 4 years onwards

" The purpose of this composition is to familiarize yourself with the unusual 5/4 metric, often associated to the famous jazz standard by Paul Desmond, Take Five. Rhythms and articulation are varied but without major difficulty. This piece is dedicated to the saxophonist "Michel Itier". " - Alain LOPEZ

A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Clarinet for 5 years onwards

" Original composition using the famous habanera rhythmic cell (dotted quarter/dotted quarter/quarter), without which there would not be any tango... " - Alain LOPEZ

A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Clarinet for 6 years onwards

A very nice composition for clarinet, brilliant and virtuoso

A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Clarint for 2 years onwards

" As a fan of bossa-novas from Antonio Carlos Jobim (with complex and moving harmonies), I have created my samba jazz in order to motivate students to work on typical rhythms of this musical style  " - Alain LOPEZ

A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Clarinet for 5 years onwards

" A rythmic composition in which the cells "quaver / two semiquaver" and " two semiquaver / quaver " are like a leitmotiv until the end of the Piece. The numerous triplets are a wink of "Rhapsody in Blues" from George Gershwin. My goal was to facilitate the listening, the exchange and the mimicry betwenn the two associated players: no tandem ("Temps d'M") without that! " - Alain LOPEZ

A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Clarinet for 6 years onwards

A Piece inspired by negro spriritual, for students playing clarinet for 2 years onwards.

" Easy little Piece (from 2 or 3 years onwards) in duet with a Piano having a nice romantic melody and pleasant harmonies " - Patrick NEBBULA

" Avant l'Exam is a simple melody for clarinet, in chalumeau's range, to dialog with piano and to hold a small concert before end of cycle's exams. " - Jean-Michel MAURY

" This waltz reminds us of diatonic accordion and will make listeners dance (and maybe the panel)! Its interpretation requires lightness and personality.  " - Jean-Michel MAURY

A Piece for exams and auditions for students playing clarinet for 5-6 years onwards.

" A piece again the virus, the strain of which was found in estearn europe!  " - Jean-Michel MAURY

If you manage to play this piece with the energy and virtuosity it requires, there is little doubt that you are not getting the flu...

" This short piece fill young clarinettists with enthusiasm. It is ideally suited for end of year exam, and can as well accompany a circus sideshow during a school fair or a music school fair. Furthermore, several clarinettists can play it together (up to 4 or 5). " - Jean-Michel MAURY

" A piece for the first cycle to work subtlety, musicality and complicity with the accompanist. " - Jean-Michel MAURY

" A piece in the italian virtuosity vein.  " - Jean-Michel MAURY

A Piece for auditions for students playing clarinet for 7-8 years onwards.

" A little duet study to work fluidity, very nice for an exam without stress. " - Jean-Michel MAURY

" Pièce in Iberian vein, made of a rubato recitative and a moment for virtuosity.  " - Jean-Michel MAURY

A Piece for exams and auditions for students playing clarinet for 4 years onwards.

" In the vein of Nino Rota, this tarantella puts into relief a work on articulations.  " - Jean-Michel MAURY

A Piece for auditions for students playing clarinet for 6-7 years onwards.

" A bit of mechanics, a lot of weightlessnes, complicity with the pianist : here are the necessary ingredients to move the audience during an outdoor party... at the begining of the summer  " - Jean-Michel MAURY

A Piece for exams and auditions for students playing clarinet for 7 years onwards

" The artistic skills and sensitivity of the musician are highlighted here, in order to recreate, thanks to varied metronomic movements, rhythms and nuances, ten atmospheres described throughout the Piece. " - Alain LOPEZ

An original Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Clarinet for 6 years onwards

" The chassé-croisé of quarter notes and eight notes triplets together with Piano incite to dance and remind us of cabarets' ambiance of the 1920s. This piece, coupled with a faster one is an ideal combination to propose for end of first cycle exam. " - Alain LOPEZ

" During the short ternary intro, the two themes are depicted and then immediatly developped in binary with a mix of Jazz and Jazz Rock styles. The "Twinning" is exploited to make the most of it: in the title, the metric, the major tone and its relative minor, the themes, the chords, the characters attribute and the repeated notes in the melody. Listen to it !  " - Alain LOPEZ

A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Clarinet for 4 years onwards

" As the light whose reflection in the water is sometimes broken by the waves, I used ascending and descending movement in the melody. The pervasive use of syncopation also enabled me to exacerbate the impact felt by the ebb and flow.  " - Alain LOPEZ

A Piece for exams and auditions for students playing clarinet for 5 years onwards.

" Orange was the popular color of tango dancers at tango's height during the twenties. The melody is as bright as the color, pleasant and is not bereft of ardour. " - Alain LOPEZ

" a Jazz waltz (dedicated to my uncle who was so benevolent during my early stages!) that may remind Erik Satie's Gymnopédies or the famous "Bluesette" from Toots Thielemans " - Alain LOPEZ

A perfect Piece for exams or auditions - for students playing Clarinet for 3 years onwards

" A romantic composition dedicated to my Director Jacques Andrieu and to his wife Danièle (pianist). The seventh intervals (range rarely used), major, minor or diminished allowed me to create a tender and touching melody. " - Alain LOPEZ

A Piece for exams and auditions for students playing clarinet for 4 years onwards.

" I had fun to mix three musical styles remotely related. My idea was to take a classical musical phrase then to reharmonize it to give it jazz or pop colors. Here is for the 'short story'.  " - Alain LOPEZ

A Piece for exams and auditions for students playing Clarinet for 3 years onwards.

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This Sonata in 4 movements comes from a group of 3 Sonatas for wind instruments (oboe, clarinet and bassoon) composed in May and june 1921. They are the last in the catalogue of Saint-Saëns' works. - RENAUD ESCRIVA

This Andante is the 2nd movement of the Sonata in E flat Major composed by Mendelssohn in 1824 at the age of 15. It is very beautiful dialogue between Clarinet and Piano which demands deep understanding between the two musicians.

Here is a very beautiful Adagio written in 1821 by Heinrich Baermann, the celebrated dedicatee of works for clarinet written by Weber. For a long while considered to be a youthful work by Richard Wagner, it was only in 1964 that it was realised that this unsigned manuscript, discovered in 1922, was in fact the Adagio from the Quintet for Clarinet and Strings No. 3 Opus 23 which had become detached from the original score. - Renaud ESCRIVA

Here is the sight-reading test used for the Clarinet examination at the Paris Conservatoire in 1910. The "Première Rhapsodie" was the extract given. What a year! - Renaud ESCRIVA