Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. Nicole van Bruggen owns one of the rarest and most historically significant instruments in Australia, partly invented by Mozart. Yet her ...

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 ...

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 – ...

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: ...

Paul Dyer conducts the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra with leading artists Craig Hill (basset clarinet), Cyndia Sieden (soprano). Basset Clarinet: An extended clarinet developed in the late 1780s by ...

The first movement, “A Sea-Change (…those are pearls…)” takes the simplest of descending motifs, the notes constantly dragged down as if to the watery depths, and plays complex rhythmic games with it, ...

During lockdown, Belgian clarinettist and yoga fanatic Annelien Van Wauwe commissioned Flemish composer Wim Henderickx to write a concerto for basset clarinet, orchestra and electronics. The results ...

Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra Michael Collins, Basset clarinet Philharmonia Orchestra Quintet for Clarinet and Strings Michael Collins, Basset clarinet Wigmore Soloists Clarinet Concerto Michael ...

List of Illustrations -- List of music examples -- Editorial note -- Preface and acknowledgments -- 1: Basic clarinet -- 2: Origins of the clarinet -- 3: Earliest clarinets -- 4: Chalumeau -- 5: ...