Please enjoy (idk or don’t) this playlist of contemporary works for bass clarinet, in celebration of the first Bachelor of Music and Master of Music concentrations in bass clarinet, now available at Arizona State University. I realize that contemporary works for an instrument that isn’t very old sounds a little funny, but here we are. If you want to know more about the maker of the bass clarinet, I suggest watching this informative video. 

If you don’t think 2 and a half hours of bass clarinet is AWESOME, think again and listen up. I was chatting in a Discord that revolves around politics and religion (the anger and the first and the deconstructing of the latter) and someone sent me Sqwonk’s album Black because they thought I might like it. It’s in the air. 

I give this playlist a Difficult Listening Hour rating of 8/10.
Please note that some works will not be present on the YouTube playlist.

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Sqwonkzoforus Rex by Jonathan Russell for 2 bass clarinets and piano 4-hands. Performed by Sqwonk and ZOFO. Album: Sqwonk+

Sha by Michael Lowenstern. Album: Ten Children, Vol. 1

Fine Tune by Calvin Falwell. Album: Fine Tune

Knee Gas (on) by Sqwonk. Album: Black

Steep Steps by Elliott Carter. Album: Steep Steps

Caerulean by Rebecca Saunders. Album: Caerulean

Ambos for two bass clarinets by Gabriel José Bolaños. Album: The Gardners at Home

Time and Motion Study I by Brian Ferneyhough. Album: Time and Motion

This Changes Everything! by Alex Temple. Album: The Gardners at Home

Interference by Richard Barrett. Album: Barrett: Transmission

Coal Seams by John Steinmetz. Album: Gone is gone

We Are Broken by Johnathan Russell. Album: From the Depths.

1985 by Michael Lowenstern. Album: The Goods

Art of Metal I for metal contrabass clarinet and ensemble of 17 musicians by Yann Robin. Album: Volcano, Art of Metal I, III