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William O. Smith - Variants for solo clarinet (Liam Hockley, clarinet)

A fascinating piece by one of the most versatile clarinetists of the 20th century. William O. Smith's 1963 piece "Variants" fully exploits the wealth of extended techniques available to the clarinet: key vibrato, multiphonics, singing while playing, muted notes, fluttertongue, glissandi and many more. "William Smith's clarinet pieces, played by himself, must be heard to be believed -- double, even triple stops; pure whistling harmonics; tremolo growls and burbles; ghosts of tones, shrill screams of sounds, weird echoes, whispers and clarinet twitches; the thinnest of thin pure line; then veritable avalanches of bubbling, burbling sound. Completely impossible except that it happened; with that kind of playing who needs electronic music?" - New York Herald Tribune