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ROSLYN DUNLOP (clarinet). '
! Music by Roulez, Shanahan, Lachenmann, Ton-That-Tiet and
: Dasbow.
, Old Darlington School, June 25.

l D A L NIENTE by German composer

; Helmut Lachenmann is like a musical
, hunger-strike. As the centrepiece of
: Roslyn Dunlop's enterprising recital of
l recent music for solo clarinet, it was perhaps most
, eloquent in passages where it refused even the most
; necessary musical nourishment - notes. What one
hears instead are the dry empty shells of sounds,
\ long since deserted and defined only by the clatter
of keys and the clarinetist's breath.
, After such anorexia, the more tender inarticu-
. lateness of ' Bao La by Vietnamese composer
Ton-That.,Tiet, seemed almost , sentimental and
\ perhaps over-rich.
There was a comparable contrast in the first two
; pieces of the program. In Boulez's Domaines, Ms
: Dunlop had a compelling control of articulation
; and dynamics which helped the crystalline textures
of each section strike off one another sharply.
Pastels, by Australian composer Ian Shanahan,
i bases its continuity of melody, coloured by an
, exploration of the clarinet's rarer soniccapability.-
, The colours were interesting though the melody
l sometimes seemed a rather bare structure to hang

L them on.
:":!,: ~:- The final work, Effetti Collaterali, by James
,,,;;I5ashow, revived a healthy appetite for both colour
and textural variety set into dramatic relief by the
integration of clarinet and electronic tape. This
wprk deserves another hearing. ,
,,1 r PETER McCALLUM';

S-,oti'\1tl M():f'\~ H~~\\c{ JV",,~ -~7) 1981 .