clarinet Archive

I remember a visit to London many years ago. On any day, I was able to locate more concerts, and at a very fine quality level, than you can imagine. The British have an amazing …

Johnannes Brahms composed this sonata in the year 1894. During this period in his life he had perfected and reached a high level of maturity in his compositional approach to structure and emotional content. He …

The Sinfonia concertante for four wind instruments and orchestra, K 297b is a work surrounded by many mysteries, and so I decided to simply ignore the confusing history and let the music speak for itself. …

Mozart composed his Clarinet Concerto for the clarinettist Anton Stadler, who was the most gifted clarinettist in Vienna at the time. It was the first clarinet concerto to be written by a major composer – …

Because of his extensive experience in composing concertos for piano, most of us might assume that Mozart participated in performances of this unusually scored work by playing the piano. However, it is the viola part …