Actually it´s ” SEAN NUA” , ” OLD AND NEW”, “ever old and ever new” these clarinet colours in Mozart´s Clarinet Quintet ( I´ll be on again about his crafty assymetries in this 1789 work, late autumn, was it ? ).
My RTE commission, Frank Corcoran´s Clarinet Quintet, nears its premiere, this November 2011 in Dublin. Assymetries ? SEAN NUA ? What colours ? Tone? Leaps and sighs ? Four glowing strings plus clarinet ( I remember Mozart´s mighty leap of over two octaves? ) ? Yet in no way Neo-Mozartian. Um Gottes willen ! Mamma mia! My three movements have to find their own narrative, tell their own story of a few recurring tones. With musical logic. Hearable. Hearably new and yet connected. A string quartet plus a clarinet.
NEW NEW
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