Songs, for once instrumental
A small selection of works by great song composers is set for clarinet in "Adrian's Song Albums".
In the collection Adrian's Song Album Series Adrian Connell has arranged five to six songs each by Hugo Wolf, Robert Schumann, Gabriel Fauré, Franz Schubert and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy for clarinet for the German edition Dohr. The arranger has left the piano part original in each case and the vocal part has also been taken over almost one-to-one for the clarinet. The keys have only been adapted very occasionally in order to avoid unnecessary accidentals. The editor has added metronome markings as well as some dynamics and articulation in the vocal and clarinet parts.
Adrian Connell states that the aim of these editions is "also to give instrumentalists the opportunity to enjoy these songs". The majority of the collected songs are also freely accessible on the Internet, but the Dohr editions are very carefully set and already conveniently transposed for clarinettists. As a collection, they also offer the opportunity to get to grips with the songs of these great composers instrumentally without great effort and also to perform them on one occasion or another.
Hugo Wolf, Wolf Song Album I, arranged for Clarinet (Bb) and Piano by Adrian Connell, score and part, E.D. 88554, € 10.80, Verlag Dohr, Cologne 2014
Robert Schumann, E.D. 88544, € 9.80
Franz Schubert, E.D. 88534, € 11.80
Gabriel Faure, E.D. 88514, € 10.80
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, E.D. 88504, € 9.80
