No. 26 Tarantella by Carl Baermann from 50 Classical Studies for Clarinet

Another request, so another bang-it-out-on-a-Sunday effort.

Someone on YouTube spotted my No. 25 from Pamela Weston’s 50 Classical Studies for Clarinet and requested no. 26. This one is Carl Baermann’s Tarantella, which is a classic example of a piece best played fast, but thankfully fits under the fingers nicely enough to allow one to do so. Being in B minor, it’s very accessible to students and demonstrates that if you’re good at a scale and its arpeggio, you get to reap the rewards in playing such a piece.

I’ll admit that it took a few attempts not to butcher any notes on the play through. That was on top of the fact it took a while to realise the camera’s SD card had run out of space! Rookie mistake.

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