for Clarinet and Orchestra-In late 1791 Mozart wrote his famous work the Concerto for ?Bassettklarinette? and Orchestra K.622 known today as his Clarinet Concerto. The challenging virtuoso piece was written for Anton Stadler and the music follows the three-part structure of Allegro Adagio and a Rondo finale.This work was first published in 1801 and by no less than three publishers. It is one of the most important works in the Clarinet repertoire and remains a popular work to the present date.Urtext of the New Mozart EditionFull score & performance material (BA4773) Clarinet in A & Piano reduction (BA4773-90) and study score format 22.5 x16.5cm (TP254) available for saleClarinet in B-flat & Piano reduction (BA4773-38)Reconstructed version for Basset Clarinet and Orchestra full score (BA4773-01)

This clarinet concerto was premiered in 1997 as part of the celebrations of the Year of Ninian one of the founding fathers of Christianity in Scotland. St Ninian the first bishop of Whithorn was believed to have arrived in Galloway in the south-west of the country in 397 nearly two centuries before St Columba landed on Iona. The three movements are based on three of the so-called Miracles of Ninian strange and evocative tales about the saint and his followers documented in a Latin poem written a few centuries after his death. As well as being a concerto the work is therefore also a collection of tone-paintings which give an impression of these ancient tales.

The Clarinet Concerto was written in 1968 in response to a commission from the Royal Philharmonic Society. It was first performed in February 1969 by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Colin Davis with Gervase de Pyer assoloist at the Royal Festival Hall London.

Davies's feeling for the potency and bravura of the clarinet goes back to works of the 1960s; his concerto for the instrument is predictably a big ranging piece in two linked movements. The first fast with a brief slowintroduction has the soloist in propulsive melodic flights slipping over into florid runs but it is a virtuoso piece for the orchestra especially for the marimba and pair of horns. The Adagio that follows is in the spare cold birdcall-riven style of other recent Davies slow movements exploiting first the clarinet's low register and then at its climax the instrument's high extremes. A cadenza leads to the coda where Davies introduces a Scots tune previously hinted at with which he brings the work to an end in F sharp major.Miniature score.

Commandé pour les célébrations de 1997 de l'année de Ninian, un des pères fondateurs du christianisme en Ecosse. On croyait que Saint Ninian, premier évêque de Whithorn, sont arrivés en Galloway dans le sud-ouest du pays en 397 AD, près de deux siècles avant l'atterrissage sur Iona St Columba. Les trois mouvements sont basés sur trois de la soi-disant Miracles de Ninian, ' le reiver et le taureau ', ' Le rêve de Pectgils ' et ' Une vision mystique de l'enfant-Jésus '. Ces contes étranges et évocateurs sur le saint et ses disciples ont été documentés dans un poème Latin écrit quelques siècles après sa mort. En plus d'être un concerto, le travail est donc également une collection de ton-tableaux qui donnent une impression de ces contes antiques. Un concerto vibrant et accessible qui offre un équilibre satisfaisant entre la profondeur de l'expression et affichage technique. / Clarinette Et Orchestre