Camille Saint-Saëns: Clarinet Sonata Op. 167 (1921)
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- Clarinet Sonata Op. 167 (1921), Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921).
Ulf Rodenhäuser, clarinet
Leonard Hokanson, piano
I. Allegretto (00:00)
II. Allegro animato (4:45)
III. Lento (7:09) (attacca)
IV. Molto allegro (11:55)
Although he remained a very active composer throughout his very long life, even the biggest fan of Camille Saint-Saëns will admit (as Saint-Saëns himself sometimes admitted) that by the 1920s -- nearly 70 years after his rise to fame -- he was something of a dry well. Still, some of the pieces he composed during the last years of his life have real value; perhaps it is hard to take a work like the choral piece Hail California (1915) seriously, but the three woodwind sonatas of 1921, one of which is the Sonata for clarinet and piano in E flat major, Op. 167, are cherished by many performers.
Saint-Saëns' Clarinet Sonata has four movements, and thus might be said to reach back past the Romantic sonata tradition, with its normal three-movement vessel, to the Classical tradition that Saint-Saëns loved so dearly. The opening melodic strains of the Allegretto first movement float upon a sea of utterly calm eighth note waves in the piano (bobbing up and down in 12/8 meter); the composer is in no hurry to reveal the secrets of the movement, but there is still passion aplenty as we go along, even if the movement as a whole is not especially long.
A scherzo movement comes next, taking up A flat major, and then Saint-Saëns provides a Lento in the dark key of E flat minor; its steady half notes and, in time, quarter notes, are so persistent in their slow plodding that we almost feel anguish at their inability to break free from the dirge they create. Much happier, though, is the Molto Allegro fourth movement that follows it without pause. Here the clarinetist is given a chance to whirl and spin to some very florid virtuoso stuff, but at the end it is the quiet tone, and even in fact the very music, of the first movement that the composer uses to close.
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Ohhhh I was so excited with the first three movements because i was like "Ah yeah, i can play this with a bit of practice". And then i heard the fourth movement and died inside
Guilherme Marello it’s actually not as hard as you’d think! i’ve been working on it for a couple months and am already there with notes, it’s just speeding it up little by little to go (and i am by no means any kind of professional haha)
Just as Sam said. I felt the same as you, but after a month of looking at it already, it's been very successful, but I'm by no means a professional. Keep things slow and you will be able to do it.
Spending 7 weeks on this piece... 4th movement is gonna be a pain to learn that quickly Px
Exactly
Okayy well I played this piece a little while ago and it actually isn't very hard at all
I. Allegretto - 0:00
II. Allegro animato - 4:46
III. Lento - 7:11
IV. Molto allegro - 11:56
I still remember it clearly... The first time I've heard this piece was when my upperclassman was playing this - and I've fallen in love, not only with the piece, but with that gentle looking boy too. It's been years since that and I've never had the courage to confess. I can still feel the emotion, as if it's from the other world, planet, cosmos... Farewell, my first love
i felt this with every fiber of my soul bro. right now I'm a sophomore in highschool and i play clarinet. for context, I'm one of the two only classical musicians at my school, the other being a pianist that i fell in love with back in freshman year. he played beautifully, beyond words can express. he was a child prodigy, but there was so much more to him behind that pure talent. his way of expression was unearthly. while we were dating back in freshman year, he would play Clair De Lune for me and ever since he cheated on me, i cannot bear to listen to it. i miss him more than life. i play clarinet, but the day i found out he had moved on he had taken away my oxygen. my love for music was driven from him. i wish that one day we can continue where we left off, and you made me feel less alone for feeling this way.
me too.
That fast part is insane at the speed he's playing, and he's doing it like it's nothing...
co instructor gave me this piece for audition. trained like crazy and somehow able to make it in one run in the final moment of my practice.
i didnt pass.
😞
St Saens is one of my favourite composers, this sonata is also amazing. From 13:16 to 13:42 is my favourite part.
Brain: Come on its not that hard.
Fingers: NO
I'm still disappointed. I played this for state at 14 years old. The second movement. I was sick with a fever. I ran out of breath. I was given a two.
A 2 is still good for state don’t beat yourself up
The third movement is marvelous. At first it explores the lower register and then it comes with the higher, letting you know how ductile can the clarinet be. All movements are awesome, but the third is my favorite!
C'est vrai. Il n'y a presque pas de nuances dynamiques dans la phrase. Toute l'expression doit venir de la sonorité et de l'articulation legato . D'abord une longue procession dans le grave, puis une réponse identique piano dans l'aigu dans une atmosphère céleste.
Je ne parlez beaucoup français :(
jean aiplein C’est magnifique, n’est-ce pas?
@@fandesfourcade I love to listen to french things.... no matter if it is music or language,... it’s a feast for my german ears aha.
I want it played at my funeral
Contrary to me, He doesn't sound like he's dying...
😂😂😂
It definitely does.
My teacher in clarinet wants me to learn this and I’m literally so proud that I’ll learn it!!
I had to play this in front of judges once it was scary but I was so proud that my teacher though I could do it
@@sadiemeggison1487same fr
Oh wow, from 15:25 thereafter is one of the most touching, nostalgic moments in all of music (at least for me!). The composer was probably reflecting on his life, seeing that he wrote this sonata in his last year.
It's really intelligent to look back in the last mvt..I was so touched to hear that lovely and beautiful melody again(especially the I64-VI-II-V-I harmony)
I don't know why, but the part at 5:24 is just so magical to me. The twelfths are just so amazing, with the spacey chords in the piano part.
omg its so good, i just wrote a song based on it
You're not alone in that sentiment!!!
The melody in the first movement and the reappearance of the melody in the finale, seems that he wrote it for the farewell of his life..
This comment made my heart wither in sorrow for the briefest moment.
Beautiful, sad, moving, hopeful and sober at the same time.
the third movement is so beautiful! I wish there was a version with an orchestra, those melodies on strings would sound so nice.
Such wonderful music - I did not know this piece by Saint-Saëns until you uploaded it. Thank you very much.
incredible that atonal music was being written at the same time as this!
..... and jazz and blues and Ukranian folk songs and .......
PLTchaikovsky pfff, Tchaikovsky...
And Debussy was death in 1918!
Indeed.
No, this is not atonal music, it's completely tonal, close to impressionism maybe, but deeply rooted in romanticism. Its harmony is very consonant and tonal, as well as rhythmic. He was a very conservative composer in his time, he was a great organist in churches, he probably influenced his music with a conservative, eclectic and religious character. It could be said that his style is between Post Romanticism and Impressionism.
5:32 this chord is so hot sounding, it's amazing!! I can't get enough of it
Thank you very much for timing the score to the music!
I'd like to think that Saint-Saens composed this for his own comfort and to comfort others, as the era of "traditional" classical music (along with Saint-Saens's own life) was slowly drawing to a close.
nattakorn shrestha he wrote it as a counter to the atonal music that was being written at the time
He also wrote Sonatas for every other wind instrument and the premiered each one on his own, what I'd pay to be at that preformance
How did it go?? :)
I love this piece and this particular recording of it, but damn that ad break in the middle kills me everytime.
I just played this for my freshman solo and ensemble it's such a beautiful piece
Bravo
Me too! I loved it! How did you do?
Did you play the whole thing? I dod the first two movements and I wanna do the next two this year!
@@tylermoore8218 maybe think about skipping the third movement unless you really want to do it for some reason, idk
@@riceballalabama4312 It’s pretty, just depressing af so prolly not
It reminds me of Monet painted his wife with a sun umbrella while in the fields,obscure with deeply missing ,and looking back the whole beautiful life. Music is the most sincere language.
Played this for solo and ensemble my junior year of high school and made it to state!! Love this piece
Beautiful !!! Thank you for posting :)
So beautiful and special! Thank you!
Very super job,great tone and interpretation. Thanks.
Those ads are breaking my heart
Why did I think I could cram the 4th movement
Wish me luck friends🙏
What a beautiful work
Seemingly simple. A wonderful example of 'art concealing art'.
played the end of the 1st movement for my uncles zoom wedding and this piece perfectly has the right vibe for it 😁
Just love this piece wow. I miss playing it
Am I nuts, or is the second movement (4:46) one of the most charming clarinet excerpts ever written?
I thought it was awful until I heard this player play it. Now it makes sense.
no because you're so right
it's so much fun to play and the style of the movement makes it so optimistic and joyous and serious all at the same time and i love it so much!
Yes!!! Especially the triplet figure about a quarter through. It's absolutely gorgeous!
@@capybarasaregreat420 you're goddamn right. Like you said optimistic etc
it's so tender but rhythmic and light, very appealing to the ears
Beautiful
¡Magnífica interpretación! Yo estoy estudiando ahora la sonata pero a un 25 % de esa velocidad. No creo que jamás llegue a alcanzar ese virtuosismo con el clarinete. ¡Qué envidia!
Wonderful music and so many beautiful stories are here from all of the world!!
Oh my god I want to play this now
Beautiful ❤️
I find is really interesting, in the second mvt, in the high register, that the clarinet almost sounds like an oboe...
I have played this and I love it so much.
your tone is so beautiful....❣️
Love this piece. fits so well with the sound of clarinet.
currently learning this possibly for nyssma and for my college auditions next year. i got this piece last year and it probably has to be my favorite piece (out of my entire history in band) i have ever played. i love the changes in style and color of each movement, but i have to say that the 1st-3rd movements have to be my favorite. :D
I used this piece for college auditions and instructors really LOVE that this is in your repertoire. Good luck!
@@hayleighkleps4487 Ahh thank you so much!
This is something for the soul
Damn, that altissimo!!! ❤️❤️❤️
楽譜付きでわかりやすく楽しんで聞かせていだましたき
ました！感激しました♩💕🌸😻
Qué razón tenía Ígor Stravinsky al elogiar los instrumentos de viento cuando dijo: "Como la voz, respiran".
A favorite from my college days :-)
Hermosa sonata!!!
Klarinetten haben einen so schönen Klang😍
The 3rd movement sounds like a funeral march
Well I definitely found a piece for my senior recital
The Allegretto reminds me R. Schumann, the second mvt Poulenc, the third one Debussy and the fourth... I didn't expect Saint-Saëns to be so talentuous.
Most of you are going to kill me because of this: i think the 3rd movement is the hardest because of the interpretation abilities that you must have.
Nah that’s completely valid
And the dynamic control necessary in the high register for the second half. That's also very tricky.
It's often the easiest looking part that is actually the most difficult in my opinion
Saint Saens wrote this in "response", if you will, to what was going on with atonality
atonality was inevitable. I myself don't feel much emotion when I listen to it, but maybe it's just me.
@@mcrettable try berg's Wozzeck
Wozzeck is an absolute banger
sorry to comment but I need to be able to get back to this spot quickly 0:29
Kora Goddard sorry to comment on your comment but I need to be able to get back to 4:47 quickly
interesting that there were 4 people liking this
Edit: 8?!
I must also comment on your comment in able to get back to 11:55 quickly
Kora Goddard sorry to comment on ur comment but I need to go to bed quickly
@@DJ-yq1jn hahaha
BELLISSIMO
Proud of my teacher😊
This is a beautiful solo. I'm going to be playing this for state solo this year. And I'm so excited. It's a great challenge but such a great song😊
i just heared this for the first time and this piece in actually Incredible, so much intensitiy but so much rest! i was also composing a clarinet Sonata but after i heard this i feel worthless.
Every piece of music, let it be whole notes is still a piece of art. As long as it means something to the composer
And this is the problem with idolizing people
@@dang5874 why is it a problem?
Leon Sundermeyer maybe in hundreds of years people will be listening to your music and saying woah Leon Sundermeyer is so good, never give up
a highlight. I have a recording of this somewhere, on a cd purely of 20th C French music for clarinet and piano played by Belgians (different recording). also features Poulenc and Jean Francaix sonatas.
Pięknie
Most musical version that I've heard - my favourite :)
Beatrix Calleja "....I played this in college for the young artists series long ago, great. to hear it again.
I love how the beginning sounds like A Whole New World.
此音只能天上有，感謝
i wanna play the 4th movement but my fingers said no❤️
I like it
Nice
4th movement is my seating audition for HS Symphonic band ;-; and I only have 2 weeks to prep
I’m so exited to play this for my 8th grade solo and ensemble
Mustard 9 good luck... solo and ensemble is tomorrow right? I wanted to play this but I kinda gave up
Maybe like Reinecke flute sonata op167 ** so beautiful works++++
Love it very artistic
This whole piece seems like saint Seans resolve in a sense.
It's not the first time I hear to this sonata, but I noticed until now that the first 3 bars are similar to Aladdin's "A Whole New World" theme xD
La musique tonale savante était peut-être passée de mode en 1921, mais la beauté se passe de mode.
女性らしい優しい音色に感動しますね。
I’m going play 1st movement in May! So excited!
Edit: 2nd movement now
When you’re solo is today and you have like 2 weeks of practice :)
Lindo
Probablement interprété par Pietro Tagliaferri à la clarinette et Francesco Attesti au piano dans un récital.
I play trumpet. There both b flat right? I can play this after i learn napoli and carnival of Venice
Me playing this on 0.5x 😭
i’m in 8th grade and i’m gonna play this for solo and ensemble in 5 weeks, wish me luck lol
i’m doing the first movement as a solo TOMMORROW and i know it’s not that hard but this is my second year of playing the clarinet and i can’t do it well 💀💀
Overall a fantastic performance , clear of articulation and dynamic changes , I wonder wouldn’t it be too fast for 4th movement ? It seems too pacy for me , can’t hear all notes .
I agree - the fourth movement is way to fast for my taste, and the way some of the notes are 'bounced' !
That's just the ridiculousness of the 4th movement. I practiced for 3 months off and on for mvmt 4, and I was only able to get it up to about 130 before my brain couldn't even process what notes I was playing anymore
I'm playing this for my "Abitur" (German version of A levels) :) I just love it:)
Hello there.
13:42 to 13:52 a tonal scale!....What happened to u Mister St Saens?!!! and the same later....same phrase in an other tonality. It would have been interesting if he would have continued to wrote music that way
I find it interesting that he plays staccato at 13:03 and similar places. There is no such indication in the note, but sounds certainly cool and fits much better in the big picture than the "default"articulation. (Is that called tenuto?) I can't imagine Saint Saens didn t want staccato in this musical context, maybe the note was wrong?
I'm so lucky i only have to play the first part of the Sonata
Literally had to dictate this for an entrance exam for grad school. Don’t ask how it went
11:56
Очень интересная музека приятна шрушать автару спасуба за витос
14:35 the clarinet entered late😞😞 but overall is beautiful❤️🔥❤️🔥
4:47
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I have to play the second movement tomorrow for my grade 6 exam… i’ll update how it goes
I played the 1st movement for grade 7 and in my opinion the 2nd is harder which is unusual. Hope you did well!
🤜🤛