Track Listing

1. Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622: Allegro
2. Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622: Adagio
3. Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622: Rondo, Allegro
4. Clarinet Concerto in E flat major, Op. 36: Allegro
5. Clarinet Concerto in E flat major, Op. 36: Adagio
6. Clarinet Concerto in E flat major, Op. 36: Rondo

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #305433 in Music
• Released on: 1998-07-14
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com
Sharon Kam is a beautiful clarinetist. She has everything you want to hear in a wind player: lovely tone, musical phrasing that always makes the composer's points, a wide range of moods and dynamics--the works. Although Kam speaks in the booklet about her personal approach to Mozart's music, it's still quite stylish and convincing throughout, backed with conviction by the experienced orchestra and conductor, veterans of many recordings. It's a pity that Teldec's ungenerous coupling--a brief, relatively superficial virtuoso concerto by a contemporary of Mozart--makes this a specialist item for clarinet lovers rather than a feast for Mozarteans. Most recordings of the Clarinet Concerto, like the one by Kam's teacher Charles Neidich, include more Mozart. --Leslie Gerber

Customer Reviews

Mozart as it should be!
If you haven't heard of Sharon Kam before you should make sure to do so very soon. On this recording of Mozart's unfortunately overplayed masterpiece you can hear the most natural clarinet playing. On the other hand the interpretation is well structured and every phrase gets it right. The Würtembergische Kammerorchester under Jörg Färber are equal partners on this wonderful CD. Mozart is coupled with a contemporary composer called Krommer. Of course the composition is not on the same level, but Mrs. Kam's playing makes it a very enjoyable virtuoso concerto.

Mozart as it should be
What a clarinettist!
If you haven't heard of Sharon Kam before you should make sure you do so very soon. This is absolutely wonderful clarinet playing; it seems like every phrase has been thought about and still it sounds completely natural. To make an overplayed piece like Mozart's clarinet concerto sound so natural it needs a true interpreter like Kam. Also Krommer is very enjoyable. Although of course not on the same level as Mozart's composition Mrs. Kam's playing makes it worth listening!