What pieces are you going to learn/play this year?
Even if its single movements from a piece/sonata/concerto
Post whatever pieces your learning/playing whether for fun/contest/exams/teacher....
Well I'm learning/playing
Arnold - Sonatina (I love it)
Saint-Saens - Sonata
Handel - Three Pieces
Fughetta and Prelude - Finzi
Oiled Wheels - Rae
Adagio And Tarantella - Cavallini
Dance Preludes - Lutoslawski
on the clarinet:
fantasy piece by gade
fantasy pieces by shumann
concertino es-dur weber
waltz by gordon jacob
i cant remember the rest but i do play some more
My focus at the moment is the 1st movement from Mozart's Clarinet Concerto. I’m playing with piano accompaniment at the first school concert of the year, funnily enough it will be my first solo on stage! I’m also looking at the 2nd and 3rd movements and maybe Weber’s concertos, if they are any good?
Right now we're playing Prairie Song [Carl Strommen], Fourth Symphony Finale [Peter Tchaivosky- sp?], and As Summer was Just Beginning [Larry D. Daehn].
I've decided not to post the titles that I'm playing with my school's band yet so here are the ones I will be/have been working on by myself possibly for fun.
- Adagio - Tarantella (Ernesto Cavallini
- Introduction, Theme and Variations (C.M von Weber
- Three Pieces (Igor Stravomslu)
I just got about 15-20 solo clarinet books from my teacher yesterday, and many of the pieces mentioned are there!! Two other interesting ones are:
Poulenc's Sonata
and Hymnos (ΥΜΝΟΣ ΕΣΠΕΡΙΝΟΣby Peter Maxwell Davies
This is a pretty weird song, as far as it looks, seeing as the first bar is 2 pages long and there is no time signature. It's not free-form all the way through though. If anyone knows ANYTHING about this piece, it would help, but I will get my teacher to help me with it on Tuesday.
I also have to play a 20thC piece for classroom music in about 6-7 weeks time and I'm thinking about the:
Arnold Sonata
Also, I'm "looking" at these pieces, not necessarily playing them very well!
1. Concerto No.1 by Weber
2. Concertino by Weber
3. Five Bagatelles by Gerald Finzi
4. Mozart Concerto, K.622
5. Brahms Sonata No.2 in Eb
I like all of these, but I really would like to get Malcolm Arnold's Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano! I think it is a lovely piece and it can help me chromatically and range-wise. The Furioso is brilliant!!
Well, my 8th grade band's playing Bacchanale by Camille Saint Saens. It's pretty fun. I'm playing Scene and Air as a solo later. And my clarinet teacher wants me to get started on Concertino.
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by Peter Maxwell Davies
