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Ian Sinclair  

Caprice, Intermezzo and Dance for clarinet and piano

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 1993
three movement work for clarinet in B flat and pianoforte

Eve de Castro-Robinson  

Chaos of Delight I

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1995
for bass clarinet

  • Programme Note

    The first in my Chaos of Delight series of pieces based on birdsong, Chaos of Delight I requires the bass clarinettiest to trill, click, screech, book and roll in a virtuosic display of avian sonorities, using the full range of the instrument, from the boom of the kakapo to the shriek of the the morepork and the bleat of the bush falcon. All these can be heard amongst sounds which exploit the unique characteristics of the bass clarinet, such as its uncannily high register, slap tonguing and multiphonics.

    The title is taken from a passage in A Field Guide to the Birds of New Zealand by Falla, Gibson and Turbott: “…there are still many quiet places far from the madding crowd, where the mind can become, in Darwin’s phrase, ‘a chaos of delight’ at the abundance and variety of birds which pass before the eye or perplex the ear.”

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James Gardner  

Charge

Duration: 01' 00" Year: 1997
for any member of the clarinet family

James Instone  

Circo II

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 1996
for bass clarinet

  • Programme Note

    Circo II was written in 1996 during the composer’s course of postgraduate study at the University of Canterbury and is dedicated to Deborah Ashworth, a bass clarinettist from Wellington, who gave its first performances. The inspiration for Circo II was the desire to explore the range of sounds of a lesser-used instrument, sounds which may appear very unlike a bass clarinet. Compositions by William O.Smith (USA) and Peter Scholes (NZ) were influential during the composition of the work. The bass clarinet begins, singing in its uppermost register, rather like a male voice in its falsetto register. Soon it descends to its deepest notes, eventually breaking out in a display of harmonics, trills and ‘colour fingerings’. The work ends as it began, returning to the smooth vocal lines.

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Jeroen Speak  

Epeisodos

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1998
for E flat clarinet

Jeroen Speak  

Epeisodos

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1998
for bass clarinet

Tecwyn Evans  

Five miniatures for a Week in August

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 1994
for clarinet

John Rimmer  

Hauturu - Where the Winds Rest

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 1992
for bass clarinet

Yvette Audain  

Hold Fast

Duration: 04' 30" Year: 1999
for solo clarinet (can be performed by any member of the clarinet family)

Lissa Meridan  

insolitary

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 1997
for solo B flat clarinet