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My Italian violinist friend only knows the word "bassotti" as a common name for the sausage dog (not the basset hound, as I thought), so I am coming up blank for this so far. I will look at the obscure instrument books tomorrow, but in the meantime, Doronk, I would really like to know wher...

Corno basso can refer to a couple of different things. In orchestral terms, the horns are divided into "high horns" (the 1st and 3rd parts), and the "low horns" (the 2nd and 4th horns). The reason is that, with a 5-octave range, horn players pretty much have to specialize in one ...

I have looked into this further, and have found 2 recordings: Koch Schwann just has the Allegretto movement, which I'd bet is what tilmaen has. The Naxos recording has an Andante Sostenuto and an Allegretto, the Andante Sostenuto being the movement that ABRSM publishes in a reconstruction. The Naxos...

Just some thoughts on this, since one of the "complaints" was mine . . . . A couple of new categories probably would have to be invented -- perhaps the "orchestral parts" one, since I haven't been able to find such a category in the Library of Congress lists. Then again, those li...

Your edition, presumably if it was for your orchestra, it includes all the orchestral parts? And a related question -- ABRSM publishing does an edition of the piano reduction (first movement only), but "reconstructed by Raymon Meylan". Do you know enough of the history of the piece to know...

Sorry, that was a bit incomplete -- that orchestration is the Double Concerto. The Romance is 1/1/2/2 3/2/0/0 1, or 1 flute, 1 oboe, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 3 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, strings.

Thanks for the link. The orchestration is 2/2/2/2 4/2/0/0 1, meaning: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, strings. It has been over a week since I sent the email, so would you mind asking in German, Kalliwoda? It would be much appreciated! Thanks in advance.

I have emailed Joachim Conradi of the German Society of Amateur Orchestras, but have not had any response. I will send him another email in the coming week, failing a response to which, i will try the University of Cologne. I decided to try Mr. Conradi first, since his Society seems to have parts, a...

I'm sure that's true, and I'm not saying to stay away from it completely, just to check very carefully to make extra sure about the copyright status of what is there.

www.partita.ru has some very illegal things on it. For instance, browsing through the clarinet solo repertoire, the Abyss of the Birds from Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time is there. Since Messiaen died in 1992, he isn't public domain anywhere in the world. Another one is Fantaisie Italienne b...

This is so helpful, thank you very, very much!!

I've just done an edit on a page, changing "Duet" to "Single Instrument with keyboard accompaniment" because the work wasn't a duet in the sense of equal parts. I realize there is a lot of variation on how this is treated (e.g. "Single instrument with piano", "Sing...

Wow, that was prompt . . . . thanks!!

As per Perlnerd's advice on a previous query, I tried to edit a work page myself to change something from "Duet" to "Solo Instrumental + Piano", but when I try to log in with the same user name I use on the forums, I get an error message saying there is no user by that name. Does...

According the The Cambridge Companion to the Clarinet, edited by Colin Lawson (1999: Cambridge University Press, p.97-8), the "Double Concerto was lost, then found again after the composer's death, and given its first performance in 1940 by Alfred Burkner with Reinhard Wolf (viola) and the Berl...