{"product_id":"kats-chernin-grand-rag-clarinet-piano-bote-bock","title":"Kats-Chernin, Elena_Grand Rag","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the composer:\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eGrand Rag\u003c\/em\u003e is part of 2021 ANAM Set project, of 67 composers each composing a piece for an ANAM solo musician.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI wrote this piece for Oliver Crofts, an incredibly talented musician, with a very sharp sense for musicality and with a fantastic technique. He is also a young man who constantly wants to challenge his playing and improve all the time. Over a course of approximately two months we have been exchanging files and ideas and one of the frequent suggestions from Oliver was: “please make it more difficult and more virtuosic.\" Often the suggestion came with a bar number or a section where it could happen. After the piece was almost finished, we decided that it needed a cadenza, which, of course, for such a short piece had to be quite brief.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the late 1990s I was obsessed with writing Rags, they were appearing in my head faster than I could write them down. Then came a \"rag lull\" time when I got rather bored with the genre and did not write anything in that kind of style. However in recent times I got interested in Rag again, but this time around it is more about strong and powerful expression, syncopation and working with a rather stringent pitch material. For example, it starts with clarinet working with just four pitches G, C, D and E flat (concert pitch) in a low register. The clarinet part moves between lowest and stratospheric registers throughout different sections of the piece.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe piano part is less an accompaniment and more an equal partner in this piece. I felt drawn to loud clusters and clanking rhythms, some extreme pedalling with held organ points and at a later point in the piece there is an atmospheric trills extravaganza.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bote \u0026 Bock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49709580157178,"sku":"BB3713","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2337\/0861\/files\/img715copy.jpg?v=1784228509","url":"https:\/\/www.clarinetallmusic.com\/products\/kats-chernin-grand-rag-clarinet-piano-bote-bock","provider":"CAMco Music, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}