Mozart's Clarinet Concerto with David Orlowsky and Schubert's "Tragic"

The idea is said to have come to him when he was in a Paris taxi and remembered how he had heard the stentorian voices of the croupiers in the casino during a holiday in a German spa town. According to his own words, Stravinsky had been thinking for many years about composing a ballet on the subject of the card game, which he himself had a great fondness for. During his second stay in America in 1935, during which he appeared both as a conductor ...