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.)
- 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)
- Aribert Reimann:
„Spiralat Halom"
(Traumspiralen)
- 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"