Riccardo Frizza & Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

It was in Munich that the 25-year-old Weber first met one of the most outstanding clarinettists of his time, the adventurous Heinrich Joseph Bärmann, who had also seen the Napoleonic Wars. Music historians believe that without this meeting Weber would never have thought of writing several concert pieces for clarinet. Weber’s ‘Clarinet Concerto in F Minor’ remains one of the most outstanding pieces of the instrument’s repertoire to this day. Interestingly, the piece was performed in Hungary relatively late, only at the very end of the 1800s: eight decades after the work’s premiere in Munich. At this event, the piece is made memorable by János Szepesi’s excellent clarinet play. In the second part of this concert, Riccardo Frizza conducts one of the greatest marvels of Schubert’s lifework, ‘Symphony No. 9 in C Major’, which was discovered after the composer’s death.