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My guide to understanding, learning and performing the seminal works for clarinet from a performer's perspective. I have over 25 years experience as a performer and teacher based in London, UK.
A little bit of background history is essential. After that it's time to look at what the score shows us and my thoughts on what makes these pieces stand out from the pack. There's a bit of analysis and each podcast is followed with a more detailed look at the score on my youtube channel. For more details and links head over to my website www.stuart-king.com
A little bit of background history is essential. After that it's time to look at what the score shows us and my thoughts on what makes these pieces stand out from the pack. There's a bit of analysis and each podcast is followed with a more detailed look at the score on my youtube channel. For more details and links head over to my website www.stuart-king.com
Update frequency:
biweekly
Average audio length:
26 minutes
English
United States
13 episodes
since Aug. 17, 2020
episodic
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One of the most influential French composers of the first half of the 20th Century, Claude Debussy wrote music that was quintessentially French. Full of wit as well as exquisite timbre and texture, Debussy created music that stood as the antithesis of the prevailing Germanic traditions championed b…
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Witold Lutoslawski was one of the foremost composers of the 20th Century. His early life was marred by the loss of his father and eldest brother at the hands of the Bolsheviks and his own brush with death at the hands of Nazis in the Second World War. Thankfully Lutoslawski escaped the clutches of …
Composer of over 70 scores for film and TV, former flautist with the London Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Edward Elgar, Gustav Holst and William Walton, William Alwyn is one of the most under-rated composers of the 20th Century. His prolific output is over-shadowed by the works of Benjamin …
Born into a wealthy London family, Arnold Bax was able to follow his passions without constraint as a young man. This saw him travel across Europe in the years preceding the Great War absorbing music, ballet and culture from a world that was about to be ripped apart by war. His private income affor…
There is something about the clarinet that composers discover or perhaps rediscover when they are in their twilight years. Mozart, Brahms, Poulenc, Howells and this episode's master, John Ireland all wrote their final and arguably best chamber works for the clarinet.
It is hard to imagine th…
Urbane, witty, tragic, spiky and lyrical! Just a few words that give a flavour of the artistry of Francis Poulenc. Singled out as part of a gaggle of artistic friends that hung out in a bookshop on la rive gauche in the 1920s, Les Six, was a master of mélodies whether in Art Song or instrumentally.…
Herbert Howells was composing at a time of tremendous upheaval and turmoil in Europe. Born in Gloucestershire he found his musical education through the church, learning organ and gaining a place as a chorister. Following training at the Royal College of Music, Howells was known primarily as a teac…
Exiled in Switzerland and trying to scrape a living for himself whilst the Great War raged across Europe, Stravinsky wrote the iconic Soldier's Tale. This travelling theatre piece was a huge shift in scale for a composer used to penning works for the grandest ballet company of the time, Les Ballet …
Labelled as an 'Atonal Noisemaker' of 'Degenerate Music' Paul Hindemith was forbidden from working in his native Germany in the 1930s. Undeterred he embarked on a series of performance/lecture tours to the USA in 1937 and ultimately emigrated there in 1940. This turbulent time in world history prov…
One of my all time favourite Clarinet Sonatas is that written by the master Leonard Bernstein. This was in fact his first published work and what an Op.1 it is! Composed from the Autumn of 1941 to the Spring of 1942, Bernstein combined influences of the great Paul Hindemith, composer-in-residence a…
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