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-productsâ€
: 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.