The Clarinet Concerto in A, K622, completed in 1791, the year of Mozart’s death, marked his farewell to instrumental music. It was also the first clarinet concerto to be written by a major composer – ...

Taking advantage of the new expressive possibilities opened up by improvements in the design of the clarinet, Mozart created a concerto of exquisite beauty — one of the last works he would ever write.

Fabio da Càsola's recording of the Mozart Clarinet Concerto with Douglas Boyd and the Musikkollegium Winterthur might not be to everyone's taste. The piece itself is often casually described as ...

If you wanted a piece to display the incredible character of the clarinet, then this is the one. Placid and deeply reflective to begin with, then all of a sudden hugely acrobatic to end, Copland’s ...

Mozart was an incredibly prolific composer, especially considering that he lived only 36 years. He wrote 40 symphonies, dozens of piano concertos and a handful of violin and horn concertos. But he ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Composer John Corigliano was composer-in-residence at last summer’s Colorado Music Festival in Boulder. He offered advice to Jason Shafer on how to play his ...

Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Kaija Saariaho, Composer Kari Kriikku, Clarinet Sakari Oramo, Conductor Laterna magica Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Kaija ...

Carl Maria von Weber's Clarinet Concerto No. 1 was commissioned by the Court at Munich in 1811 for court clarinetist Heinrich Baermann. The instrument was just evolving as a solo instrument. Rainer ...