Mozart/ Hendrikx - DedicationsMore than any other instrument, the clarinet is a medium for personal dedication to specific virtuosi. Mozart created his clarinet concerto for Anton Stadler, while Max Bruch dedicated his (double) concerto to his son Max Felix. Belgian virtuoso Roeland Hendrikx also plays Gerald Finzi's clarinet concerto, to which he has front row access via his teacher Thea King, doyenne of British clarinetists and spouse of Frederick Thurston, who premiered the

This is his ninth album

sections and their basic characters were defined and invented at the particular moment for each performance and for this recording

the name of the album is indicative of the program

" Bach soon enters into a contest first with his Italian models and then with himself: Initially

'It must have been a challenge to bring together four solo violins

Quite a few of them - Ric Cartey

This would culminate in a frenetic performance style using melodic phrasing that noted jazz journalist Ira Gitler accurately dubbed 'sheets of sound

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such as "Double"

and of course the signature vocal harmonies