This is a Benny Goodman piece I did with a pickup big band of friends in 1988. Most of the players were in a regular local "nostalgia" big band called "The Unicorns", that I was a substitute sax player for. It was recorded, live, in the First Presbyterian Church, in Palo Alto, California, which is very "echoey", with hobbyist Sony microphones into a cassette tape deck.

Goodman Band Tune

Alan - Clarinet a la King (Eddie Sauter -Benny Goodman) - 1987

Clarinet Quintet by San Francisco Bay Area composer, Durwynne Hsieh.
Performed by Alan Hebert, clarinet
Jason Lin and Benjamin Ko, violins
Kim Matthews, viola
Ellis Verosub, cello
Recorded  digitally in October, 2019 in the SoundTek studios in Campbell, California.

Durwynne Hsieh Clarinet Quintet, movt. 1

Performed by Alan Hebert, clarinet
Jason Lin and Benjamin Ko, violins
Kim Matthews, viola
Ellis Verosub, cello
Recorded October, 2019 in the SoundTek studios in Campbell, California.

Durwynne Hsieh Clarinet Quintet, 2nd Movement

Performed by Alan Hebert, clarinet
Jason Lin and Benjamin Ko, violins
Kim Matthews, viola
Ellis Verosub, cello
Recorded  digitally in October, 2019 in the SoundTek studios in Campbell, California.

Durwynne Hsieh, clarinet quintet, 3rd movt.

Recorded Winter 2022 to a "Real Books" track.

Lullaby of Birdland

Lullaby Of  Birdland

Alan Hebert - clarinet
Richard Ruby, Deborah  Simon-Lurie - violins
Tanya  Buxton - viola
Amy Brooks - cello
Recorded March, 2022

Bernard Herrman Clarinet Quintet, "Souvenirs du Voyage" - 1st movt.

This is a sad reflection on the devastation in Ukraine, caused by the war.

Lament for Ukraine, variation on Plyve Kacha for woodwind quintet

An arrangement of the Ukrainian folksong "Plyve Kacha" for string orchestra, clarinet and solo french horn.

Plyve Kacha -strings, clarinet, french horn

Live performance, (complete with small child knocking over the church directory stand at the beginning) of my piece "The Orchestra and the Orchard" by Harmonia California on December 8th, 2024.  This is my homage to English composer, Gerald Finzi.

HarmoniaCalifornia-Orchestra&Orchard

A transposed arrangement for clarinet/alto clarinet also available.  This is a "synth recording" of the built-in instruments in the composition software, MuseScore.  Composed in 2020.

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