You are on a site hosted and operated by SheetMusicDirect according to its terms and conditions. The information you provide will be handled according to its privacy policy. The information you provide here may be shared with and handled according to the terms of its privacy policy.
Unlimited access to over 1 million arrangements for every instrument, genre & skill levelStart Your Free Trial Get your unlimited access PASS!Get started free!
Clarinet Concerto (Sky Blue) is in three movements (fast, slow, fast). The first and third movements are for solo clarinet and full orchestra. The second movement is for solo clarinet and strings only.The solo versus ensemble dynamic is at its most intense in the third movement where different kinds of textures are explored, exchanged and resolved.The subtitle "Sky Blue" is from a painting (1940) by Wassily Kandinsky in which figures appear to float freely across a clear blue sky. The painting has been described as an ethereal, Miró-like confection with biomorphic squiggles that buzz like glimmering insects in the afternoon sun (Mona Molarsky). There are some places in the music which feature soloists in the orchestra alongside the solo clarinet, perhaps like the free-floating figures in Kandinskys painting.The music has passages of simplicity, contrasting with places of greater complexity. The opening of the work is radiant, with energy and warmth. This material is recalled towards the end of the work in the third movement. Between these points, lightness, darkness, changing colours, tempos and tensions are explored.The work was conceived for solo clarinet in A, to make use of this instrument's expressive timbre and range, including its low C sharp (in the second movement).The work was written for the clarinettist Alison Hughes and is dedicated to Jenny Hughes on the occasion of her 80th birthday. A recording of the premiere is available to listen to here: https://edhughescomposer.com/clarinet-concerto .Ed Hughes28.4.2022
This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard's global self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters. ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds.
Lalo Schifrin
Full Orchestra
Cody Fry
Claude-Michael Schonberg
Orchestra
(P/k/a Sam Watts)
Sean O'Loughlin
Full Orchestra, Orchestra
Klaus Badelt
Ted Ricketts
Ed Hughes
Andrew John Kawczynski
Ennio Morricone
Craig Armstrong
Elmer Bernstein
Bobby Darin
Ofra Haza
Lin-Manuel Miranda
James Horner
Kander & Ebb
We value your privacyYour opt-out preference signal (GPC) has been honored.