Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 20:01:57 -0400
Subject: Re: [CB] [CB Digest]
From: Timothy Tikker
On Friday, April 8, 2005, at 06:35 PM, List Server wrote:
> Last evening, I heard a broadcast of a live performance by Kent
Nagano
> and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra of Olivier
Messiaen's Eclairs
> sur l'Au Dela.
>
> Can someone confirm that a contrabass clarinet playing a
low concert
> Bb is part of that piece?
Yep. That's a contrabass clarinet solo. If it's not
low Bb, it's B, or something way down there. I have a couple of
recordings of it, so I could look up the name of the movement if you
like.
I was at the world premiere with the NY Phil & Zubin Mehta
in 1992, then next year at the West Coast premiere with the Berkeley
orchestra under Kent Nagano.
Messiaen's opera re St Francis Assisi also uses the contrabass
clarinet. I think those are his only two works which use it.
- Tim Tikker
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Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 08:11:25 -0400
From: Lawrence de Martin
Subject: Re: [CB] [CB Digest]
I had the great delight of witnessing the piece, and yes that
was a contrabass clarinet. Those incurable romantics have been
bettered at Bach, but they played the Messiaen as if it was written for
them - actually, it was.
Larry de Martin
Greenwich CT
Steve Marcus wrote:
>Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 10:33:05 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Steve Marcus
>Subject: [CB] Contrabass Clarinet in NYPO?
>
>Last evening, I heard a broadcast of a live performance by
Kent Nagano and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra of Olivier
Messiaen's Eclairs sur l'Au Dela.
>
>Can someone confirm that a contrabass clarinet playing a low
concert Bb is part of that piece?
>
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