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The Clarinet Concerto was one of the three items chosen for the gala concert in Copenhagen celebrating the 150th anniversary of Carl Nielsen's birth. Accompanied by Danmark Radio's Symphony Orchestra conducted by Juanjo Mena , the soloist was the Finnish clarinetist Olli Leppäniemi (born 1980).
At its first concert, conducted by Beecham, Kell was the soloist in Mozart's Clarinet Concerto. [5] The following year Beecham founded the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and as the Philharmonia in its early days played few concerts, working mostly in the recording studio, Kell was able to serve as principal in both orchestras, as did the horn ...
The modern clarinet did not exist before about 1700. There are, however, a number of concertos written for its antecedent, the chalumeau.. The discovery of six clarinet concertos by Johann Melchior Molter (1696–1765) — the first of which may date from 1743 [5] — and three concerti grossi for clarinet and oboe written by Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741) as far back as 1711 [6] have led music ...
Corigliano described the inspiration for the Clarinet Concerto in the score program notes, writing: My associations as a child – attending rehearsals and performances with my father, who was then the concertmaster of the [New York] Philharmonic – gave me the opportunity of getting to know many of the men in the orchestra both as artists and friends.
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The Clarinet Concerto ends with a fairly elaborate coda in C major that finishes off with a clarinet glissando – or "smear" in jazz lingo." The piece is written in a very unusual form. The two movements are played back-to-back, linked by a clarinet cadenza .
He has made an effort to play new music for the clarinet, and has had several works composed for him. Composers include: Toru Takemitsu ("Waves" and a concerto for clarinet and orchestra), Steve Reich ("New York Counterpoint"), Lukas Foss , Roberto Carnevale , and Einar Englund (clarinet concertos).
Concerto for Clarinet is a composition for clarinet and jazz orchestra by Artie Shaw.The piece ends with a "legendary" altissimo C. [1] The piece is a "pastiche thrown together out of some boogie-woogie blues, clarinet-over-tomtom interludes, a commonplace riff build-up towards the end, all encased in opening and closing virtuoso cadenzas for the leader's clarinet".