Mozart: Clarinet Concerto K622 / Sinfonia Concertante K297b

"Sabine Meyer gives a very fluent and pleasing account of the Clarinet Concerto … The performance of the Sinfonia concertante is well-paced and well-blended as well as bringing out the essential geniality of the invention, while the final variation movement has delightful wit." Gramophone Magazine

This features the distinguished German clarinettist Sabine Meyer playing a reconstruction of the original version of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto, which the composer wrote for the basset clarinet, an instrument with a register lower than that of the modern clarinet.

So Meyer's 're-transcription' of this ever-popular work offers us a version that has not been heard since Mozart's time. Almost as rare is the coupling, the Sinfonia concertante for four winds and orchestra, in which Meyer is joined by three members of her Woodwind Ensemble. Though it has a chequered history, the early Sinfonia is a charming piece that makes a perfect foil to the sublime, late Concerto.