Klarinet Archive - Posting 000139.txt from 2006/09

From: Nick Phillips <nickphil19@-----.uk>
Subj: [kl] Clarinet concerti and the concerto generally
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 03:07:23 -0400

"A side question. Are *any* clarinet concertos particularly good? The Mozart is a great clarinet concerto, but I don't think it's one of Mozart's "best" - not like the piano concerto No. 23, for example. Do any clarinet concertos stack up against the Beethoven, Tchaikovsky or Sibelius violin concertos? Dvorak for cello? Harold in Italy?"

Ask anyone who listens to classical music and knows a little about it to name a concerto for a wind instrument, and I think they would come up with the Mozart clarinet concerto, maybe the Haydn trumpet concerto but that would be all. I would hazard a guess that the slow movement of the Mozart is one of the most played pieces on the new style of classical music radio station (e.g. Classic FM in the UK), and rightly so.

IMHO the Mozart is one of the great concertos, hence its popularity. Others will obviously disagree.

best wishes to all from Wiener Neustadt in Austria, where the first public performance of the Mozart Requiem was given. Alas I have to return to England today.

Nick Phillips

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