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So for good clarinet works we have Brahms, Briccialdi, Copland, Corigliano,
Crusell, Finzi, Fuchs, Krommer, Mozart, Nielsen, Reicha, Stanford,
Stravinsky and Weber? What CD's are worth picking up?
I have a CD of Mozart's KV 439b Divertimenti for Clarinets and Basset horn.
I like these and I swear you can hear parts of Eine Kleine Nachtmusic and
The Marriage of Figaro in them. I need Mozart's other chamber music. What
recordings are good? Were the clarinets of Mozart's time very different
from modern ones?
It seems like every time I turn on the radio they're playing one of Weber's
Clarinet Works. This seems a very strange coincidence to me because
Weber's my favorite composer and the clarinet is my favorite insrument.
Weber isn't a very popular composer any more either. It seems he is most
popular with other composers. Wagner and Berlioz thought very highly of
him.
Joe Hagedorn
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