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.

Collaboration yields beautiful things. When the Dallas Symphony Orchestra debuts Jon Cziner’s new piece, Clarinet Concerto, Nov. 20 – 22 at the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, the audience will ...

Of five new or recent compositions booked on four Dallas Symphony Orchestra programs lately, only one is by a Dallas-based composer — and conceived for a specific DSO musician. With a doctorate from ...

The Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra will perform "Dances and Dreams" on Monday, featuring pieces by John Adams, Antonín Dvořák, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The concert will feature a solo performance ...

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 ...

Clarinetist Martin Frost's recent Weber was exceptional, warranting an appraisal of his earlier Mozart clarinet music. It is difficult to overstate the cultural value of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto and ...

The clarinet did not arrive fully formed in the hands of Alcide Nunez, Larry Shields, and Johnny Dodds for them to provide a schizophrenic counterpoint to the likes of cornetists Joe "King" Oliver, ...

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 ...

Franz Krommer's Clarinet Concerto in E-Flat even predates the famous concertos by Carl Maria von Weber. Charles Neidich is the clarinetist in this amazing early example of clarinet virtuosity. Jiri ...