Glanert, Detlev: Drei Stücke für Klarinette und Klavier (Three Pieces for Clarinet and Piano) (2003) 10'

World Premiere
6/25/2003
St Bartholomew-the-Great, London
Ronald van Spaendonck, cl / Simon Crawford-Phillips, pft


Programme Note      Deutsch
Commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society for the City of London Festival

The pieces are not so much a traditional sonata, but rather three double monologues, as the clarinet does not enter into any kind of dialogue with the piano. Instead they are condensed ‘psychogrammes’, in which one voice with two tongues provides commentary about three situations.

These circumstances are reflected in the titles of each movement: ‘Flying‘, ‘Gliding’, and ‘Circling’. They are abstract titles which, however, provided the impetus for these musical essays.

The music develops freely and rhapsodically from small gestures and movements, which are less related to older techniques, but which develop organically and grow luxuriantly - fantastic ‘air growths’ of sound.

© Thomas Tangler, 2003

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