Preview of the new album 'New York Counterpoint'
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1. Gavin Bryars - Three Elegies for multi-track clarinets, basset horns, bass clarinets and contra bass clarinet
Elegy One
Elegy Two
Elegy Three
2. Olivier Messiaen - Abîme des Oiseaux
for solo clarinet
3. Igor Stravinsky - Three Pieces for solo clarinet
One
Two
Three
4. Kate Romano - Clockwork Toys for solo clarinet
Dancing Doll
Mimic
Two Clowns
5. Philip Glass - Mishima
for multi-track clarinets, basset horn and bass clarinet
6. Steve Reich - New York Counterpoint for multi-track clarinets and bass clarinets
One
Two
Three
Selected recordings
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Graham Fitkin - Switching for solo clarinet with multi-track clarinets
Nick Shipman, clarinet & bass clarinet Recorded at the Southport Masonic Hall, June 2016
Johannes Brahms - Sonata for Piano and Clarinet in E flat
major Op. 120
No 2
Movement 1 'Allegro amabile'
Movement 2 'Allegro appassionato'
Movement 3 'Andante con moto - allegro'
Nick Shipman, clarinet
Stefan Hofkes, piano Recorded at the Bristol Music Club, April 2016
Piano: Steinway
Alban Berg - Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano Op. 5
Movement 1
Movement 2
Movement 3
Movement 4
Nick Shipman, clarinet
You-Chiung Lin, piano Recorded live at Queen Anne's School, Caversham, March 2016
Piano: Yamaha
W. A. Mozart - Kegelstatt Trio KV 498
Movement 3 'Rondeaux: Allegretto'
Englefield Ensemble:
Nick Shipman, clarinet David Lewis, viola Stefan Hofkes, Piano Recorded at Kasteel Amerongen, The Netherlands, August 2013
Piano: Erard (1843 model, built 1868)
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Studies in English Folksong
Spurn Point
She Borrowed some of her Mother's Gold
Nick Shipman, clarinet
Stefan Hofkes, piano Recorded at the Protestantse Kerk, Cothen, The Netherlands, June 2010
Piano: Gaveau, Paris
Richard Strauss - Morgen!
Johannes Brahms - Geistliches Wiegenlied
Joke de Vin, mezzo soprano
Nick Shipman, clarinet
Stefan Hofkes, piano Recorded at The Falkland Islands Memorial Chapel, Pangbourne, Berkshire, April 2006
Piano: Steinway
Johannes Brahms - Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op. 115
Movement 1 'Allegro'
Movement 3 'Andantino-presto non assai'
Nick Shipman, clarinet
Ad Libitum Quartet Recorded live at the Muziek in de Maartenskerk International Chamber Music Series, The Netherlands, November 2004
Francis Poulenc - Clarinet Sonata
Movement 2 'Romanza'
Movement 3 'Allegro con Fuoco'
Claude Debussy - Première Rhapsodie Maurice Ravel - Pièce en Forme de Habañera Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov - The Flight of the Bumblebee
Nick Shipman, clarinet
Stefan Hofkes, piano Recorded at The Falkland Islands Memorial Chapel, Pangbourne, Berkshire, October 2003
Piano: Steinway
Franz Schubert - Arpeggione Sonata D821 in A minor
Movement 3 'Allegretto'
Nick Shipman clarinet
Stefan Hofkes piano Recorded at St Martin's Church, East Woodhay, Hampshire, April 2000
Piano: Fazioli
The Woodstock Ensemble 'Temptation!'
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