Clarinet Blog: History, Technique, and Performance

Within the vast repertoire for our instrument, there are three beautiful French clarinet and piano works that I find ideal for study due to their emphasis on tone quality and elegant phrasing. For intermediate students, tackling transcriptions of iconic pieces is an excellent way to develop musicality.

The choro song “Carinhoso” is the most famous work of Pixinguinha, with hundreds of recordings made all over the world,