Arnold - Sonatina for Clarinet and Wind Band, op. 29 *Lemione Twelve Sets of Daily Exercises

Twelve Sets of Daily Exercises Based on Scales and Chords

whose melody replaces running quavers with dotted rhythms

and these are the ones he has selected for this collection

alongside Gioacchino Rossini’s fast and furious William Tell Overture

Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900)

Arnold - Sonatina for Clarinet and Wind Band, op. 29 *Lemione Twelve Sets of Daily ExercisesEnglish composer Malcolm Arnold wrote this compact sonatina in 1951 and it has since become one of his most popular instrumental works. As always with Arnold, it is impeccably crafted: the first movement, with it's wide leaps, the occasional incursion of a six eight bar into the prevailing four four, and the lightest of jazzy touches, lives up to its marking of Allegro con brio; while the second demonstates Arnold's love at this period of a gentle