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.

Mark Simpson delivers gauzy luminosity and punchy tone in Gavin Higgins’s exquisite new work, conducted with spellbinding pacing by rising star Adam Hickox alongside spirited accounts of Britten and S ...

In Liverpool, an exploration of gay themes makes Gavin Higgins' extensive and virtuoso Clarinet Concerto a work which will surely become a mainstay of concert programmes in years to come.

As is increasingly the fashion, Martin Fröst plays Mozart's Clarinet Concerto on a basset clarinet, the instrument with the extended lower range that Anton Stadler used for the first performance in ...

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 ...

Nobody has ever written for the clarinet quite like Mozart. He transformed it into the next best thing to the human voice; and in its repertoire there can be no works better loved than his Concerto ...

English clarinetist Michael Collins is no stranger to Mozart's lone clarinet concerto, having provided Gramophone Magazine its critical selection of the same for several years in Clarinet Concertos: ...

Christopher Theofanidis’s “Indigo Heaven” was well, well worth the wait. Chicago Symphony audiences expected to hear the American composer’s clarinet concerto, written for CSO principal clarinetist ...

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 ...

Quartet for Clarinet and Piano Trio Sharon Kam, Clarinet Antje Weithaas, Violin Julian Steckel, Cello Enrico Pace, Piano Sonata for Clarinet and Piano Sharon Kam, Clarinet Enrico Pace, Piano ...