Karl Leister

About the artist

Karl Leister is a world-renowned classical clarinet-player. He was born in Wilhelmshaven, Germany. He learnt the clarinet from his father (also a clarinet player) at a very early age and later studied at the Hochschule fur Musik in Berlin. Whilst still a teenager he was accepted to join the Komische Oper Berlin under Vaclav Neumann and Walter Felenstein as a solo clarinet-player. He joined the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in 1959 under Herbert von Karajan – this productive musical association was to last for thirty years.

Top songs

  1. Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op.115 - 3. Andantino - Presto non assai, ma con sentimento
  2. Sonata for Clarinet and Piano: 1. Allegro tristement - Extract
  3. Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622 - II. Adagio
  4. Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 5: I. Allegro
  5. Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A, K.622 - 2. Adagio
  6. Clarinet Concerto in A, K.622: 2. Adagio
  7. Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op.115 - 2. Adagio
  8. Francis Poulenc: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano - 1. Allegro tristement - Extract
  9. 2. Adagio
  10. Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K.622: II. Adagio
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  1. Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op.115 - 4. Con moto
  2. Clarinet Concerto in A, K.622 : 2. Adagio
  3. Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A, K.622 - 3. Rondo (Allegro)
  4. Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A, K.622 - 1. Allegro
  5. Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op.115 - 1. Allegro
  6. 1. Allegro
  7. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A, K.622 - 2. Adagio
  8. Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K.622: I. Allegro
  9. Mozart: Adagio (Clarinet Concerto)
  10. March in B-Flat Major, WoO 29
  11. Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622 : Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622: II. Adagio
  12. Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K.622: III. Rondo (Allegro)
  13. II. Adagio
  14. I. Allegro
  15. Clarinet Concerto In A K622 II Adagio
  16. Variations on Themes from Spohr's Alruna, WoO 49 for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 21
  17. Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, Op. 1: II. Adagio
  18. Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, Op. 1: I. Allegro
  19. Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 5: II. Andante pastorale
  20. Adagio
  21. Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 5: III. Rondo: Allegretto
  22. Clarinet Concerto in A, K.622 - 2. Adagio
  23. Clarinet Concerto No. 3 in B flat major, Op. 11: III. Alla pollacca
  24. Clarinet Concerto No. 3 in B flat major, Op. 11: I. Allegro risoluto
  25. Weber: Clarinet Concerto No.1 in F minor, Op.73 - 3. Rondo (Allegretto) - Cadenza: Heinrich Joseph Baermann
  26. 3. Rondo (Allegro)
  27. Clarinet Concerto No. 3 in B flat major, Op. 11: II. Andante moderato
  28. Poulenc: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano - 1. Allegro tristement - Extract
  29. Mozart-Clarinet Quintet In A, K581 - Larghetto
  30. Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, Op. 1: III. Rondo: Allegretto
  31. Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622: II. Adagio
  32. Clarinet Quintet in A - Mozart
  33. 3. Andantino - Presto non assai, ma con sentimento
  34. Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115: I. Allegro
  35. Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K.622: Klarinettenkonzert in A-Dur, K. 622: I. Allegro
  36. Rhapsody For Clarinet
  37. Trio for Piano, Clarinet and Violoncello in A Minor, Op. 114: I. Allegro
  38. Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K.622: Klarinettenkonzert in A-Dur, K. 622: II. Adagio
  39. Mozart: Allegro (Clarinet Concerto)
  40. Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op.115 : 1. Allegro
  41. Poulenc: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano - 2. Romanza
  42. No. 1 in C-moll Op 26 - Rondo, Vivace
  43. No. 1 in C-moll Op 26 - Adagio
  44. Weber: Clarinet Concerto No.1 in F minor, Op.73 - 1. Allegro - Cadenza: Heinrich Joseph Baermann
  45. 4. Con moto
  46. Mozart: Rondo (Allegro) (Clarinet Concerto)
  47. No. 4 in E-moll WoO 20 - Allegro vivace
  48. No. 1 in C-moll Op 26 - Adagio - Allegro
  49. III. Andante grazioso
  50. Rondo (Allegro)
  51. Trio for Piano, Clarinet and Violoncello in A Minor, Op. 114: II. Adagio
  52. Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115: IV. Con moto
  53. Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K.622: Klarinettenkonzert in A-Dur, K. 622: III. Rondo
  54. 1. Allegro tristement - Extract
  55. Clarinet Concerto in A, K.622 : 1. Allegro
  56. 3. Largo
  57. No. 4 in E-moll WoO 20 - Larghetto
  58. Sonata for Clarinet and Piano - 3. Allegro con fuoco
  59. Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K. 581: II. Larghetto
  60. Lied Per Clarinetto Solo
  61. Rhapsody in Blue
  62. 1. Moderato ed amabile
  63. Romanze TrV 80
  64. Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op.115 : 2. Adagio
  65. Poulenc: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano - 1. Allegro tristement
  66. Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115: III. Andantino - Presto non assai, ma con sentimento
  67. Sonata for Clarinet and Piano : 1. Allegro tristement (Extract)
  68. No. 4 in E-moll WoO 20 - Rondo al Espagnol
  69. Sonata for Clarinet and Piano - 1. Allegro tristement
  70. Allegro
  71. Clarinet Quintet In B Minor, Op.115 : 3. Andantino - Presto non assai, ma con sentimento
  72. Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622 : Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622 - II. Adagio
  73. I. Allegro appassionato
  74. Capriccio
  75. When The Wind Turns
  76. Concerto for clarinet & orchestra No. 2 in F minor, Op. 5: Movement 2
  77. Monolog No. 3
  78. Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op.115 : 4. Con moto
  79. 4. Poco allegretto
  80. [Schubert] Der Hirt auf dem Felsen - Lieder for voice, clarinet (or cello) & piano, D. 965
  81. Mozart: Clarinet Concerto In A, K 622 - 2. Adagio
  82. Trio for Piano, Clarinet and Violoncello in A Minor, Op. 114: IV. Allegro
  83. II. Allegro appassionato
  84. Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra in A Major K622 (1987 Digital Remaster): II. Adagio
  85. Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 26: III. Rondo. Vivace
  86. Capriccio for Clarinet Solo in A Major
  87. Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622: I. Allegro
  88. Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op.115: 1. Allegro
  89. III. Andante con moto - Allegro
  90. Premiere Rhapsodie for clarinet and orchestra (version for clarinet & piano) [Debussy]

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