Gerald Finzi - Clarinet Concerto in C Minor, Op. 31

Gerald Finzi - Clarinet Concerto in C Minor, Op. 31 (1949)
Performed by Robert Plane with the Northern Sinfonia
Conducted by Howard Griffiths
Movement One: Allegro vigoroso - 0:00
Movement Two: Adagio ma senza rigore - 7:52
Movement Three: Rondo. Allegro giocoso - 19:33
Source of Audio - • FINZI Clarinet Concerto

[@thewalmer7942]

It’s amazing how the string orchestral part could be a piece of its own, splendid

[@joshscores3360]

Serenade for Strings with Clarinet Obbligato

[@thewalmer7942]

@@joshscores3360 real

[@IEEMAZ_Convoluted_14.2.8.5]

@@joshscores3360 some orchestra should actually play that

[@IEEMAZ_Convoluted_14.2.8.5]

@@joshscores3360 That is without the clarinet solo

[@daniellu8282]

Hallmark of a great woodwind concerto.

[@MrAdvmusic]

My favourite clarinet concerto so far!! Thank you!!

[@daniellu8282]

so much beauty in the undercurrents

[@afbf6522]

L'he descobert avui. Trobo molt fresc l'estil. M'encanta.

[@NareshNaresh-lr9nq]

Marvelous, making exuberant!

[@yuehchopin]

Große Sendung, vielen Dank

[@barrymatthews8410]

thank you for posting this is brilliant, I haven`t heard it before but will certainly listen again

[@sophie_and_emily]

i’m obsessed with 3:44-3:55 🤩

[@TheodoreServin]

Thanks for posting this one!

[@NareshNaresh-lr9nq]

Possibly the piece had been inspired from kurt Atterberg's suite no 3 , what makes me feel like

[@owengette8089]

23:00
24:06

[@jamesobasiolu9943]

4:25

[@richardevans3624]

Finzi knew how to torture a clarinettist and orchestra. His choice of keys are just horrible for soloist and orchestra. So many flats (and sharps). In the first movement , the clarinettist has 16 bars of one flat (D minor) before modulating into SIX FLATS!!!!! Yikes! and then there the first semiquaver run.. Maybe the soloist should be allowed to swap between a B flat and A clarinet.

[@johnmcintyre9142]

I have played this and all in all, it's not that technically challenging for the solo clarinetist. Probably the hardest part is the that high A just at the very end, after those fast 'roulades'.