Martin Fröst Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra No. 3

Official music video of Martin Fröst performing, Vivaldi Concerto for Clarinet Orchestra (from the album Vivaldi ). Listen purchase the album Vivaldi here: With Concerto Köln, the clarinet virtuoso presents an allVivaldi album including premiere recordings of new clarinet concertos drawn from Vivaldis catalogue of opera and oratorio arias. Vivaldi only just lived to see the emergence of the clarinet, using it in five pieces. The Italian composer was well aware of the brilliant, virtuosic capabilities of the instrument with its roots in the trumpetlike clarino, and of the mellow soulfulness of that instruments predecessor, the chalumeau. On this album, Fröst imagines what Vivaldi might have done had he lived long enough to know the clarinet better. Fröst uses a specially built boxwood instrument to get as close as possible to the sound of the best 18thcentury clarinets Vivaldi knew without forgoing the technical capabilities of its modern desc