The Bass Clarinet: Over The Clouds – Fausto Saredi

The bass clarinet history is relatively more recent than the one of soprano clarinet. We have the first sources of the first prototypes, such as the Glicibarifono, at around the end of 18th century, when Mozart had already composed his wonderful Clarinet Concerto K. 622 for basset clarinet, a sort of soprano clarinet going down to the lower register. This need to go lower and lower in the clarinet family produced the birth of the bass clarinet.
So many composers (Mahler, Shostakovich, Strawinsky, Strauss, Wagner, Liszt, Verdi, Caikovsky and others) have dedicated wonderful solo parts to it. The project of this Cd comes from a long time ago, attending the composers who with their personal style and their language could be able to spot the cantabile technical characteristics and variety of timbrical effects in the different registers of the bass clarinet.