The clarinet, compared with the flute, oboe and bassoon, is a modern instrument and therefore little or no music written before the time of Mozart exists for it. This is a misfortune, for it means that a golden age of music,which included Handel and Bach and a host of lesser but admirable composers, has hitherto been a closed book to clarinetists.

This delightful little work is a free arrangement of movements taken from two ofTartini’s sonatas for Violin, arranged for Clarine...