The early clarinet family Works by Graupner, Handel, Beethoven and Danzi

Op 28 februari 2016 speelt het ensemble A'dam Diviso Franz Danzi's sonate voor bassethoorn en fortepiano Op. 62 in het Rabotheater in Hengelo. Dit werk, waarin de klarinetvoorloper de bassethoorn centraal staat, is te vinden op deze CD: een snoepje voor klarinetliefhebbers. "Eight different types of clarinet, from the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth, are to be heard in this selection of early music for the instrument. It begins with a group of duets from about 1715, thought to be the first published music naming the instrument, played on a pair of C clarinets after instruments by its chief developer, J.C. Denner. Keith Puddy shows himself to be a most accomplished player on these various instruments. Puddy handles these various types with skill and extracts pleasing sounds from most of them. The CD has its duller moments, to be sure, but there are plenty of appealing ones too, and lovers of the clarinet will find considerable fascination in this dip into its history." (Gramophone)