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I know this isn't the kind of thing usually posted here, but I got a lot out of reading this forum in the past year and I wanted to give something back. Most of the pieces I performed on this recital I first learned about here! As far as I know, mine is the only complete recording of the Laurischkus that exists, and I have only heard the Holbrooke Mezzotint recorded by violin. I really hope you all enjoy them!

https://soundcloud.com/peter-bauer-29/sets/first-masters-recital

-Peter

The library at New England Conservatory has a number of manuscript scores as well if I remember correctly, including a clarinet trio that I never got around to looking at...

Recently discovered that this guy Verhey wrote a clarinet concerto dedicated to Richard Muhlfeld. Select movements seem to be played fairly often at the student level and for competitions, but there is no commercial recording. The Free Library of Philadelphia seems to have the music, I'll see if I can get my hands on it. Found a pretty good recording of the first movement here, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV0sMkMCZs4, it seems very charming. There are some videos of the second movement, but to me they all seem almost twice too fast.

Seems like the only thing of his to be recorded is the flute concerto. Anyone have any experience with his music? It would be cool to see a list of works, though IMSLP has a handful, including another piece for clarinet. He has an article on the Dutch Wikipedia but it's pretty spare, http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodoor_Verhey.

The Coleridge-Taylor is super rad.

Thought that might be the case. I've made that mistake myself!

Curious about the clarinet quintet, anyone know anything more about it? Is there a score somewhere?

This has all been super helpful, I appreciate everybody's input! I don't think I'll be playing chamber music on my recitals, but I always love learning about new pieces. For those of you who are also interested in clarinet music, Algernon Ashton wrote a 4 min Tarantella for clarinet and piano that is really quite nice. Colin Bradbury has recorded it, and I recently put it up on IMSLP. Worth recommending to other clarinetists I think, well written and very effective!

Hey everyone, I have two Masters recitals coming up this year and I'm hoping to program some things that are out of the ordinary. I have a few ideas already but I thought I'd ask, what are your favorite unsung works for clarinet and piano? My most recent discovery is a Sonata by Giacomo Setaccioli that I think is really fantastic. I've been trying to get my hands on the music for sonatas by Leo Sowerby (unrecorded as far as I know) and Adolf Busch (recorded, but hard to get) as well.

Anyway, let me know your favorites!

Got this in the mail today, it's fantastic! Pretty amazing music this good has gone unrecorded for so long.

This can be super frustrating, I have experienced first hand that many musicians simply aren't very curious about things they haven't already heard. As a clarinetist I consider myself a strong advocate of Reicha and his woodwind quintets, but most wind players that I know dismiss him out of hand, usually without having heard any of his twenty-four quintets. I obtained a complete recording last summer and was surprised at how interesting they were, especially the middle and later ones. I mean if someone who grew up with Beethoven and studied with the same teachers wrote twenty-four of anything you'd expect at least some of them to be good.

But I agree, much of this is an issue of advocacy. Sadly plenty of great composers neglected to be their own champions during their lives, and if no one else was willing then they would usually disappear. This goes hand in hand with publishing as well. Arcangelo Corelli's music had a profound impact across Europe not only because it was good (which it certainly was) but because he wrote it at a time when better more widespread music publishing was coming about. Most wind players today have in my experience heard or played, if any, only one Reicha's quintets, Op. 88 No. 2 in Eb Major. That's #2 out of 24. It's not because it's the best one, but I think it is because this quintet has historically been the most widely published, often in a truncated version that totally ruins the form. (Op. 99 No. 4 is my favorite right now, check it out!) I'll admit that he's no Beethoven, but to me the idea that a woodwind quintet, an ensemble that has basically no other repertoire from this very important musical period, would ignore the wealth of music Reicha gave us is basically insane.

The only real solution to the problem is to be an advocate for something you think is worthwhile. I think most people will recognize something good when they hear it, they just need to be given that opportunity.

Came here to mention the Dvorak clarinet Quintet as well! Additionally Coleridge-Taylor wrote a clarinet sonata in his student days, if it was anywhere near as good as the quintet and his other early chamber works it would be very much worth having.

Bravo! These are so great, I've had the Moderato from the Viola piece stuck in my head all day. Can't wait to hear what's next! I'm dying to hear the rest of the movements from Aus der Jugendzeit, as well as the 1926 Piano Quintet. Are you planning on recording his arrangement of Schubert's Divertissement a la hongroise for winds and strings? That would be awesome!

Happy to do it!

Hearing these pieces is such a treat! The Tonbilder are awesome, and this last sonata is really quite interesting (that's a hell of a scherzo!). I'm planning on pushing all of these pieces on every violinist friend I have.

Keep them coming!

That was me! The work list in Steffen's book is really thorough, his analysis of Kahn's works seems to be likewise. I wish I could read the rest of it but I don't speak German!

Oh man, can't wait to hear them!