1 in F major, Op.113 and was awarded with dumplings and Strudel. Mendelssohn agreed, wrote the Konzertstück no. I had to fight for this one! Is it really a concerto, being called a Konzerstück (Concert Piece)? Is it long enough for a concerto? But it was eventually allowed on the list, maybe because we could then include this nice dumpling story: Mendelssohn was asked by the clarinettist Heinrich Baermann – well known for his skills in the kitchen – to write a piece for him and his son Carl. but that’s another story! Ĩ Mendelssohn: Konzertstück no. ![]() Krommer – a violinist himself – clearly loved writing for woodwinds, also composing two double clarinet concertos, one of which features in a recurring nightmare in Vienna’s Musikverein. The Adagio has a plaintive solo line while the finale skips along joyously, entirely untroubled. Published in 1803, it follows the classical model, with a long, engaging first movement containing a double exposition. ħ Krommer: Clarinet Concerto in E flat major, Op.36Īt Franz Krommer’s peak, his fame ran alongside the likes of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven and there’s little doubt that had his lyrical Clarinet Concerto been published under one of these other illustrious names, it would be acclaimed much higher than it is today. Both of my clarinet teachers also studied with King, so I've always felt a connection to Finzi's music. Here, it is played by Michael Collins, who studied with Dame Thea King (Thurston’s widow). Nevertheless, the concerto ends with an impetuous flourish. I love the mellow, almost Brahmsian quality to the rhapsodic slow movement and the rondo finale is a joyous affair until – in what Michael Kennedy termed “a misty nostalgia” – Finzi reintroduces the theme from the first movement. The first movement opens with vigorous, argumentative strings before the clarinet responds in lyrical manner. ![]() It was premiered by Frederick Thurston in 1949. Gerald Finzi’s Clarinet Concerto is the finest in the English repertoire.
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