Presenting works by German, French and British composers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Arthur Campbell and Helen Marlais exhibit the enormous dynamic and sonic spectrum of the clarinet.The increasing virtuosity which composers demanded from the clarinet during the course of the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries is impressively demonstrated in the final movements of the works on this disc by Robert Schumann, Francis Poulenc and Malcolm Arnold.Arthur Campbell was born in Canada and studied at the Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, USA. He has won numerous international and national competitions, including the International Clarinet Competition and the National Music Festival of Canada. Arthur Campbell is on the faculty of Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids Michigan.
