Frank Corcoran

There are only the two melodic lines, leaping and crisscrossing, chasing each other´s snake-tails, Book of Kells trellis-work in these 4 very short chapters of my
FOUR PIECES FOR TWO CLARINETS.
All the extremities, depths and heights, chalumeau colour, pianissimo breath, howling, high shrieks.
PIECE 1. A-Clarinet follows B-Clarinet canonically up nearly three octaves. Even a fortepiano trill is a dramatic moment before highest stridency wins.
PIECE 2. fast breathlessness of the enormous phrase taking off , this time the rocket ascends over three octaves. Flatterzunge takes over in the second half.
PIECE 3 a quiet, miniature song for both wind-instruments.
Poised, exquisite gestures.
PIECE 4. My salute to ” B.A.C.H.” , certainly, bent and shaped in many different shapes.