(1784-1847)
The clarinet player who inspired Weber, Meyerbeer and Mendelssohn to write works for him and was himself a composer.
Music includes studio recordings by THEA KING
(clarinet), MEMBERS OF THE ALLEGRI STRING QUARTET and CLIFFORD BENSON (piano) and records.
Programme devised and written by PAMELA WESTON Weber Melodie (first broadcast); Concertino in E flat, Op 26
MICHELE ZUKOVSKY (clarinet) LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA conducted by ZUBIN MEHTA Variations, Op 33 (excerpt) (with both Weber's and Baermann's version of Variation 3)
Meyerbeer Cantata: Gli Amori di Teolinda (first broadcast): juua VARADY
(sop), JORG FADLE (clarinet) RIAS CHAMBER CHOIR
BERLIN RADIO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by GERD ALBRECHT
Mendelssohn Sonata in E flat, for clarinet and piano Mendelssohn, orch
Baermann Concert piece in D minor, Op 114: THEA KING (clarinet), GEORGINA dobree (basset-horn)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ALUN FRANCIS Baermann Adagio (from Quintet, Op 23); Clarinet Quartet in a flat, Op 18
(first broadcast); Air varie (first broadcast)