literature

solo-literature

Richard Barrett (1959): „interference" (1996-2001) (text by Lucretius), contrabass clarinet (+ voice, pedal bass drum)(12'min) (Ed.UMP)
Thierry Blondeau: „non-lieu" (2004) (4´min.) (Ed.Jobert)
Gerard Brophy(1953): „Twist" (1993) for contrabass clarinet ("For John Bruce Yeh") originally for clarinet, and also for bass clarinet. This arrangement made 1996. (www.amcoz.com.au)
Ann Callaway: „Contraption" (1991) (american music center) "First Personage" (1985)( american composers alliance)
Barry Conyngham: „Journeys" (1980) for solo performer and tape (1 performer plays bass clar., contrabass clar., sopranosaxophone, sopranino saxophone), tape.(15´ min.)(www.amco.com.au)
F.Donatoni: „Ombra" (12´min.) (1984) (Ed.Ricordi)
Eberhard Eyser (1932): „Flux" (2000) (11´min.)(eyser.eb@swipnet.se)
Gérard Grisey(1946-1998): „Anubis-Nout" (1983) (12´min.) (Ed.Ricordi)
Norman M.Heim: „Invocation" op.53 (1981) (7´30"min.) (new york public library)
Walter Hekster(1937): „Play" (1972) for clarinet-solo/any kind of clarinet (Ed.Donemus)
Hans Joachim Hespos: „Pico" (1978) version for contrabass-clarinet
Shigeru Kan-No: „Otnacca" (1998) (7´min.); „Work" (1994)(6´min.)
Dominik Karski: „The Outward Impulse" (2007) cbcl-solo with tam-tam
Martin Q Larsson: „Half the trouth about the universe" (2004)
Hans Ulrich Lehmann: „El Mar" (1993) (8'-9'min.) für Kontrabass- oder Bassklarinette (Hug & Co. Musikverlage, Limmatquai 28-30, CH-8001 Zürich)
Alan Robert Leichtling: „Nachtmusik op.36" (1965) (6´30"min.) originally for bassoon (pub: american music center)
Terje B Lerstad: „Toccata" (Op.183); „Rendez-vous II" (+ tape) (Op.189); "Tacet 5'33" (Op.199)
Daan Manneke: „Gesti"
Marc Monnet: „Le Cirque" (6´min.) (Ed.Salabert)
Edson Tadeu Ortolan: "Ceu de Vidro" (2002)
Alexander Raskotov(1953): „Stykhara"
Robert Rønnes: „Klarinettkonsert" (Abcl/cbcl/acl,ork or pno)
Etienne Rolin: „Räderwerke" (1995) (ca.10-12´min)
Giacinto Scelsi(1905-1988): „Maknongan" (1976) (4´min.) (Ed.Salabert)
Patrice Sciortino: „Clef" (1990) (5´min.) (Ed.Billaudot)
Hannes Galette Seidl: „Allmählich aber die Gedanken einschläfernd" Armutszeugnisse II (2006) mit elektronischen Geräten (12´min)
Kazuhiko Suzuki: „Brushstrokes" (2001)
Giorgio Colombo Taccani: „Golem" (2004) (ca.6´min.) (Ed.Suvini Zerboni)

duo-literature

Georges Aperghis; „Cinq Couplets" (1988)(+ voice) Ed.Salabert (15`min.)
Philippe Barraud: „Nalanda" (2003) (+piano) (4´30"min.)(philippebarraud@wanadoo.fr)
Lucien Cailliet: „Le Pionnier" (+ piano); arranged by bradley stevens
Chris Dench (1953): „Funk" (1989) for Eb contrabass (contra-alto) clarinet and untuned percussion (United Music Publishers/London) (9`min.)
Bojidar Dimov: „Rituals for Clarinet Duo" (1985) (Abcl/Ebcl; cbcl/bcl/Sib) (Ed.Dimov/Köln)
Eberhard Eyser (1932): „Schattenspiel" (2003) (+ piano) (14´min.) „Speculi" (1988) (+ alt-cl or alt-sax in mi/Eb) (12´min)(eyser.eb@swipnet.se)
Morten Gaathaug: „to karnevalsbilder fra virkeligheten" (1982) (+ piano), first movement for contrabassclarinet
Dominik Karski: "Inner Stream" (2003) (+ bassclarinet) (8´min.)
Rudolf Kelterborn: „Duet" (1989) (9'30"min.) (+viola) (Tre Media Musikverlage)
Terje B Lerstad, „Scherzo, Fantasi og Fuge" (+ cfag) Op.98 "Fantasi" (+ harpe) Op.129
Georges Migot: „Prélude" (1954)(+ piano) (Ed.Leduc)
Marc Monnet: „Mélodie"(1985) (+voice)(ca.10´min) (Ed.Salabert)
Luigi Nono; "A Pierre. Dell` azzurro silenzio, inquietum" (1985)für Kontrabassflöte, Kontrabassklarinette und Live-Elektronik. (9'35"min.)
Alfred Reed: „Afro" (+ piano) (Belwin Mills);"Scherzo Fantastique" (+ piano) (Piedmont Music Company)
Eric Valdenaire: „variation 49: le dernier voyage" (2004)(+contrebasson) (3´min.) aprés un poème de M Houellebecq (valdenaire.eric@numericable.fr)
A.Weber: „Mutances" (2.version)" (+ horn in F) Ed.Salabert

trio-literature

Jean-Luis Agobet(1968): „Génération"(2002);concerto grosso for cl/b-cl,cl,cl/cbcl and orchestra (17´min) Ed.Jobert
Mark André: "...ALS ... II" (2000) für Kontrabassklarinette, Violoncello, Klavier und Live-Elektronik
Georges Aperghis: „Simulacre I" (1991) (soprano, clar.contrebasse & percussion) (10´min.)
Pascal Dusapin: „Anacoluthe" (1987)(7´18"min.) pour voix de femme, clarinet contrebasse et contrebasse (Ed.Salabert)
Mathieu Grégoire: „Un Paysage" (2004)(mib, cbcl, piano)(5´min)
Jonathan Harvey: "Chu"(2002) for soprano/fingercymbals, clarinet/cbcl and cello (Faber Music Ltd.) (12´min.)
David Philip Hefti: Counterpoints on "Come, Sweet Death" (2000) (11'min.)für Klarinettentrio (cl, bassett-horn, cbcl) (Ed.Kunzelmann)
Hans Ulrich Lehmann: „De Profundis" (1988/89) (15'min.) for violoncello, contrabass-clarinet and percussion (Ed.Gravis)
Terje B Lerstad: „Jabberwocky" (alt,cbcl,pno) (Op.166)
Donald Martino: „Triple concerto"(1979)(cl,bcl,cbcl and chamber orchestra of 16 players) (Ed.Dantalian)
Robert Pascal: „Story Board" (2003) 3 clarinettistes (mib/alto mib; cor de basset/contrebasse; basse) (6´15"min.)
André Richard: "Glidif" (Version 1991) a sonar e cantar. a Luigi Nono in memoriam für Bass-/Kontrabassklarinette, zwei Kontrabässe und Live-Elektronik
Robert Rønnes: „Suite no.1" (1986/87) (13`15") (cl,bcl,cbcl) in 3 movements (rroennes@online.no)
Martin Schlumpf: „Jeux" (1979) (15'min.) for 3 clarinets (also basset horn, bass clarinet and contrabass-clarinet) (Ed.SME/EMS)
Patrice Sciortino: „Roseaux" (trio: bs,bcl,cbcl) (Ed.I.M.D)

chamber-music(4 or more)

Mark André: "AB II" (1996-97) für Kontrabassklarinette, zwei Schlagzeuger, Violoncello, Klavier und Live-Elektronik
Georges Aperghis: "Illios" (1978) pour 10 instrumentistes; (Durée: 15'min.) (Ed.Salabert)
William Blank: „Cris" (1999) (29'30") pour piano et ensemble (fl, fl-sol, fl basse / cor anglais / clar, clar basse / clar contrabasse / cor / tpt / tbn / multiperc / alto / vlc / cb (Editions Papillon)
Rob Du Bois(1934): „Iguanodon" (1982) 6 cl.Basses & 3.cl.Contrebasses (Donemus); "Fleeting" (1997) (Donemus) Voor es-klarinet, 9 klarinetten, 2 altklarinetten, bas- en contrabasklarinet.(ca 12'min)
Jan Bas Bollen(1961): „Klarinetten 1, 2, 3" (Donemus)for clarinet sextet (1988/1989) Voor es-klarinet, 2 klarinetten, altklarinet, basklarinet en contrabasklarinet (ca.17'min.)
F.Coiteux: „Mini concert" (8 morceaux) Version 3 (cl sib & basse sib/Contrebasse sib)
Lyell Cresswell: „Le Sucre du Printemps" (6.basscl/3.contrabcl)
Chris Dench (1953): „Light-strung sigils" (2001) amplified recorder and six players (clarinet in A doubling contrabass clarinet) (13'min.) (Australian Music Centre) "Dark Neumes" (1991) for 6 brass, 4 amplified woodwind, 5 amplified strings, and 2 percussion (clarinet in A, clarinet in B flat, bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet in B flat,) (13-14 min.)
Peter Duelken: „Quintett op.18" (sax bar, cl.contrebasse, vn, vc, pno)
René Gerber: „A Terpsichore" ( mib, 3 sib, 2 altos mib,basse sib, contrebasse sib)
Saed Haddad: "The Otherness" (2003) for contrabassclarinet, piccolo-trumpet, percussion, piano, violin and cello (4´min.)
M W Karlins: „Concert Music No.3" for Woodwinds, Brass, Piano and Percussion (1963-4)3 fl(3 picc)-2 ob-3 cl(3rd,b.cl, 2nd, cb.cl)-2 bsn(cbsn); 4 hn-2 trp-3 trb- tuba; 2 perc; piano
Dominik Karski: "Streams within" (2003)for 14 players (23´min.)
Terje B Lerstad: „Madamme de la Moutaine onder het gras" (Op.11) (6bcl,3cbcl) "Adagio" for kontrabassklarinett og klarinettkor (Op.113D) "Oktett" (cembalo,fl/picc/afl,ob/ci,cl/cbcl,fag,cfag,hn) Op.121 "Blåserkvintett (nr.4)" (fl,ob,cbcl,fag,hn) (Op.135B) "François Solaire" (sopran, tenor, picc/fl/afl, acl/cbcl, vl/vla, cb, pno) (Op.176)
Drake Mabry: "Soleil Luisant" (1996) for voice, contrabass clarinet, and cello, accordion, piano, and percussion; text by Charles d'Orleans (7'30min.)
Chiel Meijerin(1954): „Cycle of time" for clarinet sextet (1990/Donemus) Voor 3 klarinetten, 2 basklarinetten en contrabasklarinet. (ca. 7'min.) "Hitting back" for clarinet sextet (1990/Donemus) Voor 3 klarinetten, 2 basklarinetten en contrabasklarinet.
Luigi Nono(1924-1990): „Guai ai gelidi mostri" (1983) per 2 contralti, flauto (ottavino/flauto basso), clarinetto (mib/cbcl), tuba (tromba piccola), viola, violoncello, contrabasso e live electronics (28´min.); „Io, frammento da Prometeo" (1981) per 3 soprani, piccolo coro, flauto basso, clarinetto contrabasso e live electronics (ca.45´min.) (Ed.Ricordi)
Raymond Parfrey: „A March of Moods" (mib, 4 sib, alto, basse,contralto, contrebasse)
Robert Pascal: "Dulwan nimindi" (2004) pour voix de femme, ensemble instrumental, et électroacoustique (la seconde clarinette jouant le Cor de Basset, la Basse, et la Contrebasse.)
Enrique Raxach(1932): "Vórtice" (1983) for 6 bass clarinets & 3 contrabass clarinets (7'min.) (Ed.Donemus)
Scott Robinson: „Immensity #3" (cor de basset; cor de basset/cbcl; cbcl; contrabasson) (6´30"min.) (ScienSonic Music)
Olivier Roinsol: "Nein!" (2004) pour neuf (nine...)clarinettes: quatuor I (sib/mib; sib 2; sib 3; basse); quatuor II (sib 1; sib 2; cor de basset; basse); clarinette contrebasse
Emmanuel Scarpa: „Hiatus" pour petite clarinette Eb, cor de basset en F, clarinette contrebasse en Bb et piano (7´min.)
Gilles Schuehmacher: „Thibet" fragments pour soprano, trois clarinettes (cl/cl.b; mib/cl.b; mib/clcb), contrebasson et piano op. 31 (2003) Textes extraits de : Thibet, de Victor Segalen. (11´30"min.)
Patice Sciortino: „Exultrance" sextuor de clarinettes (cl.mib/2cl sib/cl.alto/bcl/cbcl); "La Cervine" opera de poche (4 clar:(mib/sib; sib; sib/cbcl; bcl); mezzo sopran; percussion) éd I.M.D
Henri Scolari: „Arghoul 1" (1971) (7´min.) pour clarinette, clarinette basse, clarinette contrebasse et vibraphone (Ed.SME/EMS)
Michael Smetanin: „Ladder of Escape" (6bcl,3cbcl)
Marco Stroppa(1959): „From Needle´s Eye" (1996/97) pour trombone soliste, double quintette, percussion (ca.20´min.) (Ed.Ricordi)
Robert Suter: „Arietta notturna" (1993) (8'min.) für 4 Instrumentalisten (Kontrabass-Klarinette, Violoncello, Gitarre und Schlagzeug) (Tre Media Musikverlage)
Olav Anton Thommesen: „Kroppsholdninger" (Ebcl,2cl,acl,bcl,cbcl)
Klas Torstensson(1951): „Spans/spannvidder" (1981/Donemus) bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet, 2 percussion (De basklarinetpartij bestaat ook als zelfstandige compositie onder de titel „Spans„) (ca.8'min.)
Jürg Wyttenbach: „Gargantua chez les Helvétes du Haut-Valais" -„Was sind das für Sitten!?"(1999)für 8 Sänger, Kontrabass-Klarinette, 2 Klarinetten, Geige, Kontrabass, Hackbrett, Bass-Hackbrett, 2 Handorgeln und diverse Schlaginstrumente. published by the author

contrabassclarinet in the orchestra

John Adams: „Guide to Strange Places"
Thomas Adès: "Asyla" 3rd.clarinet doubles on contrabass-clarinet; "Powder Her Face"; „Amerika"(2000)(Faber Music Ltd.)
Georges Aperghis: „Histoire de loups" (1976) opéra sur un livret de Marie-Noëlle Rio d'après Siegmund Freud pour 8 voix solistes principales, 4 barytons et 9 instrumentistes; (2h15'min.) "Liebestod" (1981)opéra sur un livret de Georges Aperghis pour 2 acteurs, 11 chanteurs et 9 instrumentistes; (2h25'min.) "Déclamations" (1990) pour baryton, clarinette-contrebasse et orchestre; (17´30"min.)
Girolamo Arrigo(1930): „La Cantata Hurbinek" (1972) (40´min.) (Ed.Ricordi)
Havergal Brian(1876-1972): "Symphony No. 1 in D minor" (the Gothic)
Charles Chaplin: „Modern Times" (film-music)
John Corigliano: „Symphony No. 1" Clar. 3 part doubles Bb, Eb clarinet, & Contrabass clarinet. Includes a solo contrabass clarinet passage (recording: 1996, RCA Victor Red Seal, 09026-68450-2, Leonard Slatkin, National Symphony Orchestra)
Gordon Downie: "Forms 6: Event Aggregates For Orchestra" (will be premiered 2005)(one bass clarinets doubling contra bass clarinet).
Antonin Dvorak(1841-1904): „Cert a Kaca (Kate and the Devil)" opera ca.1900 (normally played on bassclarinet)
Stefano Gervasoni(1962): „Dialogo del fischio nell´orecchio e di un rospo" (1989/90) (14´min.) (Ed. Ricordi)
Gérard Grisey(1946-1998): „Epilogue" (1985) pour 4 cors et grand orchestre (ca.12´min.); "Modulations" (1976/77) pour 33 musiciens (ca.19´min.); „Partiels" (1975) pour 16 ou 18 musiciens (ca.24´min.); „Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil" (1997/98) pour voix soprano et quinze instruments (ca.40´min.); „Le temps et l´écume" (1988/89) pour 4 percussionistes, 2 synthésiteurs et orchestre de chambre (20´min.); "Transistoires" (1980/81) per orchestra (ca.22´min.) (Ed. Ricordi)
Jonathan Harvey: „Jubilus"(2003); "Bird concerto with Pianosong"(2001); "Mothers Shall Not Cry" (2000) (Faber Music Ltd)
Hans Werner Henze: „3 geistliche Konzerte" für konzertierende trompete und großes kammerorchester ; "Sonate für 6 Spieler" (bassclar/contrabassclar.ad.lib.); "7.Sinfonie"; "Bacarola"; "dramatische Szenen aus Orpeheus"; „Requiem"; „Sinfonia no 10„ (2002)(Ed.Schott)( Clarinet 4, doubling b-clarinet and cb-clarinet );„Appasionamente" (1994)( b-clar and cb-clar)(Ed.Schott)
Anders Hillborg: „Klarinettkonsert"
Geert Van Keulen(1943): „Horn Concerto" (2001, revision 2002) for horn and orchestra (17'min.); „Toccata and Aria" (1988) for two solo double-basses, eighteen wind instruments and percussion (Donemus) (ca. 12'min.); „Träff" (1995) for double wind quintet, double bass clarinet and double bass (ca.13'min) (Ed.Donemus)
Oliver Knussen: „Whitman Settings" (1992) opus 25a (Faber Music Ltd)
Charles Koechlin(1867-1950): "Le Docteur Fabricius" poeme symphonique d'après Ch. Dollfus, Op. 202
György Kurtág: „New Messages" op.34a (Ed.Musica Budapest); "Schatten" (1996)(Ed. Musica Budapest)
Guillaume Landre(1905-1968): „Concertante Per Clarinetto Basso Ed Orchestra" (1959/1961) Oorspr. voor contrabasklarinet en orkest. (Ed.Donemus)
Peter Lieberson: "The Six Realms, for Amplified Violoncello and Orchestra"
György Ligeti: „Requiem" (27´min.) 3rd.clarinet doubles on cbcl(Ed.Peters); „Lontano" (1969) für großes Orchester(10´min) 4th.clarinet(sib) doubles on cbcl(Ed.Schott)
Liza Lim(1966): „Machine for Contacting the Dead" (1999/2000) for 27 musicians (40´min.) (Ed.Ricordi)
Luca Lombardi(1945): „Jahreswechsel" (1993/94) für Kammerorchester (15´min.) (Ed.Ricordi)
Steven Mackey: "Eating Greens"
Hellgart Mahler: "And the desert shall blossom" (1977) Solo viola, 3 flutes, 3 clarinets, contrabass clarinet, percussion (3 players), harp, orchestral strings (6-7 min.) Revised ed. 1980
Giacomo Manzoni(1932): „Percorso a otto" (1975) per doppio quartetto di legni (10´min.) (Ed.Ricordi)
Donald Martino: „Piano Concerto" (27´min.) bassclar. doubles on contrabass-clarinet (Ione Press/agent:e.schirmer); "Mosaic" for grand orchestra (16´min.) one clar.doubles on contrabass-clarinet (Dantalian Inc.)
Oliver Messiaen, "Éclairs Sur l'Au-Delà" Contrabass clarinet, with one solo passage. (recording: 1994, Deutsche Grammophon 439 929-2)
Fabio Nieder(1957): „Portrait von Ferrucio Busoni über seine Sonatina seconda" (1997) per orchestra, pianoforte invisibile, organo invisibile, voci di bassi invisibili (ad libitum) (10´min.) (Ed.Ricordi)
Arne Nordheim: „Violin-Concerto" (1996) Ed.Wilhelm Hansen "Nedstigningen" (1980)
Krzysztof Penderecki: „Capriccio" (1968) for violin and orchestra (10' min)(Edition Moeck Nr.5044)
Aribert Reimann: „Spiralat Halom" (Traumspiralen)
Esa-Pekka Salonen:„ Wing on Wing" (2004) „LA Variations" (1996)
Peter Schat: „Een Indisch Requiem" (1995) (Ed.Donemus); „Lente concert" (2001)(spring concert ) for flute and orchestra Opus 36 (Ed.muziekgroep nederland)
Arnold Schönberg: „5 Stücke für Orchester" op.16 (Version.1909) (19´) one clar. doubles on contrabass-clarinet in A(?/!) (Ed.Peters)
Igor Stravinsky: "Symphonies of Wind Instruments"
Michel Tabachnik(1942): „Invention à seize voix" (1972) per orchestra e 4 magnetofoni (17´30"min.)(Ed. Ricordi)
Toru Takemitsu: „Visions" for Orchestra.(1989) (Ed.Schott)
Edgard Varèse(1885-1965): „Amériques" (1.Versione-Revisione K.Angermann (1991)) per grande orchestra (cbcl in Mib) (ca.25´35"min.); „Amériques" (1922) per orchestra (cbcl in sib) (25´min.)(Ed.Ricordi)
Roman Vlad(1919): „Due preludi e una fuga (L´arte della variazione (2.Serie))" (1995/96) per grande orchestra (Ed.Ricordi)
Jan van Vlijmen: „Monumentum" (1998)(A symphonie in two movements) (Ed.Donemus); „Celebration" (2002) (Ed.muziekgroep Nederland)
Rolf Wallin: "Appearances" (2002) Contrabass clarinet
Jörg Widmann (1973): „Lichtstudie 1-6" (2001-2004) auch A Klarinette (Ed. Schott); " Das Gesicht im Spiegel" (Oper) (1973)
Iannis Xenakis: „Oresteia" (1969) suite for large ensemble, Choir and soloists (Boosey & Hawkes); "Acrata"; "Kraanerg"