Matt Johnston

A rollicking tune from Johann Strauss, Jr., sure to get stuck in your head. This piece is performed by the Vienna Philharmonic every New Year's Eve.

The most familiar melody of Rachmaninoff, arranged here for a variety of solo instruments, accompanied by clarinet choir.

La Valse Triste, opus 44, de Jean Sibelius est une courte œuvre orchestrale qui faisait à l'origine partie de la musique de scène de la pièce Kuolema, écrite par son beau-frère Arvid Järnefelt. Le mot...

The music for 'Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral' comes from the end of the second act of Richard Wagner's epic opera, 'Lohengrin.' Many band students are familiar with this work through the arrangem...

An arrangement of the beautiful fourth movement of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2. It is possible to substitute a vocal soloist in lieu of the Clarinet 1 part, singing the original material from the s...

Marche Slave is one of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's most popular and well-known pieces, frequently performed by orchestras of all levels throughout the world. It was commissioned by the Russian Musical...

The Enigma Variations (Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36) of Edward Elgar is an orchestral work consisting of an original theme with fourteen variations was composed in between 1898 and 1899. Th...

The Piano Concerto No. 24 in C Minor of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was composed in Vienna during the winter of 1785-86. It was premiered at the Vienna Burgtheatre in April 1786 only one month before the...

The Egyptian March of Johann Strauss, Jr. is a joyful, yet quirky, piece in which the surprise for the audience comes towards the middle of the piece when the members of the performing group begin to...

Italian composer and clarinetist Ernesto Cavallini's (1807 - 1874) Adagio and Tarantella for clarinet and piano was first published in 1869. Here, it has been arranged for solo clarinet and clarinet c...

One of Camille Saint-Saens most popular works is The Carnival of the Animals, composed in 1886 for two pianos and small chamber orchestra. Two of the movements, The Swan and The Elephant have been arr...

Without a great body of repertoire by the most famous composers, it is neat to know that this Romance is the only piece that Edward Elgar composed for a solo wind instrument with orchestra. Composed i...

One of the most beloved classical overtures ever composed is this Overture to An Italian in Algiers by Gioacchino Rossini. Written in 1813, along with The Barber of Seville (1816) and La Cenerentola (...

L'ouverture de l'opéra Les Noces de Figaro de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart est l'un des morceaux préférés des joueurs de bois du monde entier. Cet arrangement pour chœur de clarinettes donne aux musiciens...

Fanfare by Belgian composer Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens, arranged for Clarinet Choir by Matt Johnston. Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens (1823-1881) is a composer unfamiliar to most, unless you happen to be either...

Le Concertino de Carl Maria von Weber a été composé au printemps 1811, en trois jours, pour le clarinettiste virtuose allemand Heinrich Joseph Baermann. Ce fut une année particulièrement productive po...

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky composed the score for The Sleeping Beauty in 1889 and it was premiered the following January at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia. One of the more freq...

Le Rêve d'un sabbat de sorcières est le cinquième et dernier mouvement de l'œuvre programmatique d'Hector Berlioz, la Symphonie fantastique. Ce mouvement est une représentation musicale sauvage et fré...

Ailem Carvajal-Gómez - Suite Caribeana for E-flat Clarinet and Clarinet Choir, arranged by Matt Johnston. A charming and festive suite of five dances by Cuban composers Manuel Saumell and Ignacio Cerv...

What began as an arrangement of this movement for a budding high school bass clarinet soloist has evolved into a full arrangement for soloist accompanied by clarinet choir. Naturally, even though the...

This arrangement of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Overture from The Marriage of Figaro could easily be played by a traditional clarinet choir, simply reading all the Bass Clarinet parts on B-flat Clarinet...

Originally composed by Pavel Chesnokov in 1912, 'Salvation is Created' seemed perfectly suitable to be arranged for bass clarinet ensemble. Some hairpin crescendos and decrescendos have been added, as...

This has to be one of the most haunting pieces ever composed for the piano. Here it has been tastefully transcribed (and transposed, thankfully!) for an assortment of low clarinets. Not for the faint...

A favorite duet for flutists everywhere, arranged and adapted for two clarinets and piano.