Every Friday we choose a observe from a Naxos Music Group album launched twenty years in the past to supply the accompaniment for 5 minutes of your downtime.
This week’s decide from the Ondine catalogue (ODE1056-2) options music by the little-known late-Baroque German composer Johann Melchior Molter. Of his full output (which included some 170 symphonies and over 90 concertos), it’s solely his six clarinet concertos, the earliest within the style, which might be identified as we speak. Found after the Second World Battle, they exhibit the composer’s fascination with the penetrating coloratura tone of the early clarinets. We’ve chosen the opening motion of his Clarinet Concerto No. 1 In A serious.
