Movements from Mozart’s piano concertos, especially the slower ones, are often likened to his operatic arias. This comparison seems small beer when listening to the three clarinet concertos that Weber ...

Whatever you do, do not believe that 18th Century clarinet music begins and ends with Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622. An unsurpassable piece of music, to be sure, but Mozart laid the ...

Arguably one of Mozart’s most recognisable, Symphony No. 40 is mysterious in both sound and origin. Little is known about Mozart’s last three symphonies. His G minor Symphony was performed twice in ...

Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in F minor, op. 73: I. Allegro, II. Adagio ma non troppo, III. Rondo. Allegretto; Clarinet Quintet in B flat major, op. 34 : I. Allegro, II ...

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 ...

A principal player from the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra was once again the featured soloist of the Chamber Orchestra of the South Bay on Sunday night. The concert, at the Norris Center for the ...

The clarinet was fairly new and going through lots of design changes in the couple decades around 1800 or so, it being different for Mozart (who died 1791) than it was even just in 1811 when Carl ...