Prayer places a single clarinet line in an exposed spiritual space. Without accompaniment, the instrument must create its own gravity, resonance and silence.

The title T’filah points toward prayer as both utterance and listening. The music suggests an inward address rather than display: a line shaped by breath, memory and concentration.

The clarinet’s ability to move from warmth to fragility, from shadowed color to vocal intensity, gives this version a deeply personal character.

• Form One movement.
• Duration Approximately 6 minutes.
• Forces Solo clarinet or bass clarinet.

Prayer exists in several solo versions within Auerbach’s catalogue. The clarinet version extends the work’s central idea into a woodwind voice capable of both intimacy and intensity.

The version for bass clarinet or B-flat clarinet was created in 2008, after the original 1996 conception of T’filah. It preserves the spiritual directness of the work while giving it a different color and physical breath.

Boosey & Hawkes / Sikorski lists this work as Prayer (T’filah). Version for bass clarinet or clarinet in B flat, dated 1996/2008, with a duration of 6′.

No separate first-performance information for this clarinet version was found during this search, so no premiere information is listed on this page.

I did not find a clear Spotify recording of the clarinet or bass clarinet solo version. The public performance materials currently found are primarily YouTube videos.

Public publisher, sales, video, score and related-version links for Prayer for solo clarinet or bass clarinet.