Jean-Pierre Labaste

10 Études concertantes

The challenge of this new booklet is to combine the development of learning with the pleasure of playing through a different and enriching booklet of studies.

The author wanted those who discover these studies to take pleasure in approaching them and interpreting them at their convenience, in B or A.

Here is a testimony to a school "à la française" that has trained so many brilliant clarinettists.

This high-level study book makes you want to work, play and play again! Those who enjoyed the studies by Rose, Blancou, Yves Didier's scales, the difficulties of a Tomasi, Debussy's colours, will be fulfilled.

Aside from the exciting last study, "in a Balkan style", each study is a pleasure that declines one or more useful difficulties for the great repertoire. However, there is no excessive or gratuitous difficulty here. Jean-Pierre Labaste, a perfect connoisseur of the clarinet's technical and expressive capacities, draws us in with these beautiful melodies and harmonic variations, only to trap us in unexpected ways, giving this collection its full pedagogical value.