Mendelssohn -Two Concert Pieces for Clarinet and Basset horn Op. 113 & 114 (1833)

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 1809 – 4 November 1847), born and widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. Mendelssohn’s compositions include symphonies, concertos, piano music and chamber music. His best-known works include his overture and incidental music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the Italian Symphony, the Scottish Symphony, the oratorio Elijah, the overture The Hebrides, his mature Violin Concerto, and his String Octet. The melody for the Christmas carol “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing“ is also his. Mendelssohn’s Songs Without Words are his most famous solo piano compositions. Two Concert Pieces for two clarinets (1833) Concert Piece No. 1 in F Minor Op. 113 (1833) Concert Piece No. 2 in D Minor Op. 114 (1833) 7:48 Ludmila Peterkova, clarinet & Nicolas Baldeyrou, bassethorn and The Prague Philharmonia conducted by Jiří Bělohlávek Description by Jeremy Grimshaw [-] In December 1832 and January 1833, Mendelssohn wrote a pair of works for a trio of clarinet, piano, and the now nearly arcane basset horn: the Concert Piece No. 1 in F major, Op. 113, and the Concert Piece No. 2 in D minor, Op. 114. Mendelssohn dispatched these two works immediately upon completion to clarinetist Heinrich Baermann and his son Carl, a basset horn player, who were touring Germany and Russia at the time. As tokens of the composer’s personal friendship with the Baermanns (and his desire to help young Carl establish his career as a professional composer), the two Concert Pieces stand as the only compositions for basset horn in Mendelssohn’s oeuvre.