Saturday, 18 June 2011

Disk number four

I think I may have mentioned before that my Wife and I do not always coincide on our musical tastes, while she was swooning over Donny Osmond, I was freaking out to King Crimson, when we got married we found that the only record we had in common was a Shakatak album - Night Birds.
I did take her to a few orchestral concerts and gradually we have both broadened our tastes, indeed it was through going to concerts that we found the first peace that we both liked, and because of this connection Mozart's Clarinet Concerto has to be in my eight. As soon as I hear the opening bars I am immediately reminded of my wife, and that can't be bad.
I dare say that some will say that it's not his finest work, but I don't care - I like it. It is however the last concerto Mozart wrote, and one of the best. At the time it was written the clarinet was not as fully developed as it is now and this must have been one of the earliest virtuoso pieces for it, but what I like is the way the sound of the clarinet merges and then emerges from the sound of the string orchestra, oh yes and there are some cracking tunes as well,
Disk number four - Mozart Clarinet Concerto

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