Hi, I was wondering one was the hardest pieces u`ve ever played.

For clarinet, I would say the Mozart Clarinet Concerto. To me, I want to create my own identity with this piece. And because it is one of the standards, everyone for the most part knows it. But I suppose that the process of creating your own identity is the hardest aspect of the piece. For the most part, it is just diatonic movement, so playing the notes is not the hard part.

For ensemble, I would say Joseph Turrin`s Hemispheres would be the hardest. I have played a lot of ensemble work, but this has to be the most difficult. This piece was premired last year by the NY Phil and even Drucker missed notes on it. Thats how hard it is. To make it even harder, the performance I gave had Turrin in the audience at Carnegie Hall.

Yeah, every always talks about the Mozart concerto, really it depends on the person. You can make a piece as easy/hard as u want it 2 be. Anyone can play notes, but what makes a piece hard, is actually interpreting it, and achieving what the composer wants. I think the weber concerto no. 2 is quite difficult... but i dunno, is not that hard.

Premiere Phapsody is pretty hard

I agree with Dmtri on the Mozart comments. Every clarinetist in the world "thinks" that they can play Mozart but so many of them miss the part past just playing all the notes. You have to shine through that piece because so many other people do it all the time. I think that is the hardest thing about it - making it sound as if Mozart just wrote it. It is a difficult piece but I think that the Premiere Rhapsody (as before mentioned) is a difficult piece (maybe more so than Mozart). There are alot of pieces written for clarinet that are hard to play WELL without being hard to play. i think it depends on who you are and what you`ve been brought up to do.

Like Mozart just wrote it... (plays...fumbles...mutters "I`m never going to get these runs even"...plays...stops and squints at the music..."Wolfgang, would you PLEASE write legibly?"...)
Is that how you meant?

Not quite.... I meant more as if it were a brand new "fresh" piece of music that no one had touched before.

the hardest piece i`ve ever played was (i guess i should say is cause i`m still playing it for auditions and such) is the first movement of weber first. it`s a great piece though. and although i thought it was really hard at first, it`s actually really easy now. but that`s how it is with all pieces