Messager: Solo de Concours

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These high-quality piano accompaniment tracks help make practising more effective and enjoyable! They are recorded by a professional accompanist and can help you keep in tune and in time, as you play along to the piano part for this work.

André Messager composed his Solo de Concours as an audition piece for the Paris Conservatoire in 1899. It is a very popular piece in the clarinet repertoire today, with its fine melody and virtuosic coda.

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Cadenza (bar 85): 7 seconds of silence in piano part before 4 click-beats signify re-entry of Allegro non troppo section

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This practice version slows down the quicker sections of the 'performance' track above, by around 15-20%. It is included for free with that version if selected.