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Charles Stanford Clarinet Concerto


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Charles Stanford is a mixed bag to my ears - some of his choral works are standbys and he has a few works kept in the repertoire. But I find a good deal of his stuff not too interesting and at few pieces suffer the excesses of the Victorian age. Yet of the English composers of that time he was one of the best and I agree that he always had strong craft. But I never knew of this lovely concerto. Now it is hardly breaking any ground at all but the orchestration with the clarinet is fantastic - the clarinet plays a ton and you really have to be careful the clarinet doesn't blend too easily at times.

Some nice brass writing with strings - again no new ground broken here (especially as Mahler was at his height - you can hear a little Mahler influence), but definitely worth studying and enjoying as one of the best clarinet concerto movements I have heard in a long time.

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