Concerto Archive

Jean Sibelius’ Violin Concerto

Sibelius’s D-minor Violin Concerto towers as an icy summit in the instrument’s literature. But Sibelius and the violin are connected in other ways, too. He aspired to become a violin virtuoso himself but unfortunately fixed …

Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto

Mozart wrote this concerto shortly before his death, in 1791, for the clarinetist Anton Stadler, the Austrian clarinet and basset horn player. The concerto was given its premiere by Stadler in Prague on October 16, …