Looking for a duet Piano - Clarinet

[stephane]

I'm planning a mini recital at my home with friends and family somewhere in the coming schoolyear.
I'm playing the piano and my girlfriend the clarinet at the same school.
We have the intention to play both some solo pieces (probably those working on in school) but also one or a few duets.
Both our teachers support this idea and we will start looking for pieces in September. But I was hoping to find some pieces I (we) personaly like rather than playing some pieces the teacher finds nice. This always helps in learning the stuff.
The main reasons for me to do this recital are:
-getting used to play in front of people. (last year school recitals where played realy bad mainly due to stress)
-getting used to play together with someone (listen and adapt tempo etc.)

So what am I looking for: a few duets for piano and clarinet. Not to difficult but still musical. (not difficult as in easy to play and as in easy to listen, the audience isn't realy classical music minded). It can be both: a piece where one of the instruments accompagnies the other or a piece where both instruments play a major role.

What are our levels of playing:
Me, Piano:
2 years of piano playing.
Prepared for last school recital/exam: clementi Op 36. 2; Bach Musette; Burgmüller Innocence and some czerny;
Currently working on Easy arrangement of Joplin's Entertainer; Richard Clayderman's Ballade pour Adeline (I know this is not classical music, but I like it), Burgmüller's Arabesque and some French chanson

My girlfriend, clarinet:
1 year op playing after a stop of about 9 years. Before that she play for >20years clarinet and before that the recorder. (I don't realy know the titles of her repertoire. It are merely exercises from a method book)

Any suggestions are welcome.

Best regards,

Stephane

[BoliverAllmon]

I heard hindemith's sonata for clarinet and piano and loved it. The piano part may be a bit much though. Don't know. You would have to take a look at it.

boliver

[Bouter Boogie]

What about Milhaud's Scaramouche for clarinet and piano? It's a lot of fun, but I'm not sure about the level.. I think it's pretty difficult, though

[llamaman]

This site is great.

https://www.music-scores.com/clarinet/composer.php

Mainly arrangements though.

20 years +? And you for one year.........try the arrangement of flight of the bumble-bee.

[Appenato]

play something fun like disney.  no seriously!! my friend recently took her clarinet back up and we got a disney movie theme songs book (we also got the titanic book, but most of those pieces sound the same... disney's the better bet). it's loads of fun. once we get the pieces worked up we're hoping to give a recital. my brother plays the saxophone so "cruella de vil" sounds really cool in our little trio.  other movie theme songs would be good, too.

[stephane]

Thanks all for the suggested pieces.

BoliverAllmon and Bouter Boogie, I'll look for the scores (haven't found them quickly on the net) to see if they match my capabilities and if I like them.

Llamaman, there are nice easy songs indeed. I've downloaded a couple. Mainly clarinet songs accompanied with piano. And certainly some at my level.

Appenato, diesney is indeed great, I have a couple of books at home. Most pieces are to hard for me but I use the melody line for sightreading exercises for my right hand. The melody line is mostly far easier than the accompagment (at least for me it still is).
We could use an easier one but then I'll have to transpose the melody for clarinet. (which of course is not impossible but still quite a job)

The Titanic songbook is one of the options we have thought of as our most difficult and most recognised (given the audience) piece. We have two books, one for clarinet and one for piano. (Still have to check if they match completely) This would avoid me the transposing. Also the clarinet version has an accompagnement disc which might inspire me. We would take (of course) the theme song "My heart will go one" if we go for this. I guess my best way to go with this peace is to have my teacher simplify the piano part.

Thanks again to all of you .