By Bruce Pearson. Edited by Mary Elledge. Band. For bass clarinet. Method book. Standard of Excellence Comprehensive Band Method. Book B,2. Music book. Published by Neil A. Kjos Music Company

Bass Clarinet

SKU: HL.48025211

Bass Clarinet Solo. Composed by Brett Dean. Boosey & Hawkes Chamber Music. Classical. Softcover. 8 pages. Duration 600 seconds. Bote & Bock #M202536957. Published by Bote & Bock (HL.48025211).

UPC: 196288133391. 9.0x12.0x0.067 inches.

With his opera Hamlet, which premiered in Glyndebourne in 2017, the composer Brett Dean added a new, modern analysis to the certainly numerous artistic ones of the famous subject - with enormous success, as the press reviews and many subsequent stage productions attested. The composer's and his librettist Matthew Jocelyn's fruitful examination of Shakespeare's text material yielded both the full-length opera and several concertante “by-products” : And once I played Ophelia for soprano and string quartet, From Melodious Lay, an orchestral poem with solo soprano and solo tenor, the suite Gertrude Fragments for mezzo-soprano and guitar, and Confessio for solo bass clarinet. Confessio describes an appearance by Hamlet's uncle Claudius: In the castle chapel he deliversa short monologue – rather a reflection than a prayer or confession. Claudius reveals to himself the deep fear of the consequences of his murderous deed - and a vague, though hardly justifiable, hope for mercy.