No composer has written more for the clarinet nor more successfully. He challenges the player but delights the audience. The outer movements are like controlled riots; the slow movement breathtaking.

Movements from Mozart’s piano concertos, especially the slower ones, are often likened to his operatic arias. This comparison seems small beer when listening to the three clarinet concertos that Weber ...

The clarinet was fairly new and going through lots of design changes in the couple decades around 1800 or so, it being different for Mozart (who died 1791) than it was even just in 1811 when Carl ...