Chamber Music Clarinet,
Piano
SKU:
PR.114418230
Concerto for Clarinet
and Strings. Composed
by Daniel Dorff. Sws
both. Premiere: Arne
Running clarinet, James
Freeman conducting
Orchestra 2001,
Philadelphia PA.
Contemporary. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation.
Composed 1986, 1993.
28+12 pages. Duration 19
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #114-41823.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.114418230).
ISBN
9781491109939. UPC:
680160640713. 9x12
inches.
Summer
Solstice is a 19-minute
concerto in three
movements, composed for
solo clarinet with a
colorfully-textured
string orchestra. The
piano reduction is
comfortably voiced for
recital use. Dorff's joy
in writing for his own
instrument is readily
heard in the warm
cantabile writing and
gracefully idiomatic
passagework. Drawing
inspiration from the
elegance of Mozart's
concerto and the rhythmic
grit of Copland's,
Dorff's concerto is a
true hybrid of
jazz-inspired language
with classical form and
counterpoint. The
Philadelphia Inquirer has
written, Summer Solstice
is light without being
insubstantial, melodic
without being obvious. It
has an invariably
American sound.
Orchestral score and
parts are available on
rental. Full score is
also available for sale
as study score
(416-41604) or large
score
(416-41604L).____________
_________________________
Text from the scanned
back cover:Summer
Solstice (Concerto for
Clarinet and Strings)The
Philadelphia Inquirer has
written “Summer
Solstice is light without
being insubstantial,
melodic without being
obvious. It has an
invariably American
sound.†SUMMER
SOLSTICE is a 19-minute
concerto in three
movements, composed for
solo clarinet with a
colorfully-textured
string orchestra; the
piano reduction is
comfortably voiced for
recital use.
Dorff’s joy in
writing for his own
instrument is readily
heard in the warm
cantabile writing and
gracefully idiomatic
passagework. Drawing
inspiration from the
elegance of
Mozart’s concerto
and the rhythmic grit of
Copland’s,
Dorff’s concerto
is a true hybrid of
jazz-inspired language
with classical form and
counterpoint.