Sinfonia Concertante for clarinet, horn, bassoon & orchestra in B flat major, Op. 3
Concerto for 2 clarinets & orchestra in E flat major, Op. 35
Sorgmarsch (Funeral March), for orchestra
The music heard on this disc comes from Sweden and dates from the early nineteenth century. Though performed by a small Swedish wind symphony, most of it wasn't written for that medium. It's objectionable that the packaging doesn't give a better idea of what one is getting. The Concertante for clarinet, horn, and bassoon in B flat major, Op. 3 (not B major as is indicated in the tracklist) was arranged -- presumably by Bernhard Henrik Crusell, although that isn't actually stated -- from an orchestral concerto. The Franz ...
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The music heard on this disc comes from Sweden and dates from the early nineteenth century. Though performed by a small Swedish wind symphony, most of it wasn't written for that medium. It's objectionable that the packaging doesn't give a better idea of what one is getting. The Concertante for clarinet, horn, and bassoon in B flat major, Op. 3 (not B major as is indicated in the tracklist) was arranged -- presumably by Bernhard Henrik Crusell, although that isn't actually stated -- from an orchestral concerto. The Franz Krommer (Frantisek Kramar) Concerto for two clarinets in E flat major is an arrangement by Crusell for winds of Krommer's original. And the concluding Sorgmarsch (or funeral march) was mostly written by someone else after Crusell's death; its final section quotes one of Crusell's songs. The disc therefore contains no actual music by Crusell in its original form, and it's thus hardly a suitable component for a survey serious such as the Swedish Romantics set of which it is a part. The...
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