Looking for peer reviews for this piano and bass clarinet piece: Sad Song, April 2026

Hello everyone,

This is a piece I finished in April. I'm looking for general feedback on the overall structure, the melody, and the harmonic progression and of course the notation.

Thank you in advance for listening and looking over the score!

Best wishes,

Laurent

Sad song final.pdf

Hello

First of all, I’d like to say that I found the piece lovely and very pleasant to listen to.

At the start, the piano has quite a ‘minimalist’ pattern, but then it breaks away from that and sounds a bit odd. However, given the prominent role the piano takes on later, I think it’s fine.

I haven’t checked the range or anything. But could the clarinet be a standard one rather than a bass clarinet? In many places, it’s in quite a high register.

Thanks for sharing.