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In this third movement, you should contrast the registers as if they are separate instruments responding to each other. Your bass "quasi funèbre" should be ample and sonorous, though without acidity, whilst for your treble you should look for a very gentle flute sound, distant and without vibrato. - RENAUD ESCRIVA |
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There is a mysterious anguish which floats throughout this brillant fourth movement. The agitation and feverishness of your playing should reflect this latent anguish. At the conclusion, which refers to the first movement, avoid accenting the quaver in the Barcarolle rhythm which risks making the phrasing too heavy. - RENAUD ESCRIVA |
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Charles Oberthür, virtuoso harpist born in Munich, wrote Six Nocturnes called "Wedding Presents" for the mariage of the Duke of Nassau. Le Désir - Opus 65 is one of these pieces, where the version for clarinet is dedicated to Henry Lazarus, for 50 years the "Clarinetto Supremo" during the reign of Queen Victoria. - Renaud ESCRIVA |
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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 |
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Here is a very pretty Romance by Princess Marie-Elisabeth von Sachsen-Meiningen (1853-1923). A talented pianist, she was also a composer and in 1892 she wrote this Romance in F Major which was to be performed by Richard Mühlfeld, the dedicatee of Brahms clarinet works. This piece is a good introduction to Romantic music. - Renaud ESCRIVA |