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Many clarinetists, amateurs and professionals, classical or genre explorers, wish to make the step towards another approach to the instrument as offered by klezmer music.
Sound, technique, style, melodies, scales, typical rhythmic figures and naturally effects are needed to achieve the pleasure of the game.
If Klezmer has long gone beyond the festivities of the Ashkenazi Jewish community (Eastern Europe), it offers another approach to the clarinet, its favorite instrument.
Its deep interiority contrasting with an irresistible festive impact, its historical mixing with baroque, Gypsy and oriental music, its modern flirtation with jazz...so many paths of influences which make klezmer an extremely expressive music.
I dare here to make a comparison with the second half of the 20th century, when so-called avant-gard composers from dodecaphonism were looking for new ways, by deconstructing the melody to reconstruct it.
In using effects prohibited by harmonic comfort, therefor modern creativity offered an escape from the norm, from the system...
At the same time, klezmer is also a music of research. But this time popular.
An accessible universe; the paradox being that its mastery is not necessarily so easily acquired. Combining the classic technique of scales and arpeggios, klezmer is often a questioning of our fundamentals in terms of flexibility, of embouchure, choice of material, projection, choice of tones, improvisation, ultra groove...for an expression made of pleasure and singularity.
In any case, this is what I wish to share in these Klezmer Clarinet Duets.
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Sign in1. Ponchkes - 2. Teriyaki - 3. Reiz Kugel - 4. Knish - 5. Apfel Strudel - 6. Blintzes - 7.Vatroushka - 8. Mandelbrot - 9. Oznei hamas - 10. Baba ganousch Lullaby - 11. Lekech