25 Clarinet repertoire hidden gems to perform in 2025
Happy New Year! I hope 2025 brings you health, happiness, and lots of great music!
Speaking of great music, the clarinet community is #blessed to have such a wide variety of repertoire. It’s no secret that I enjoy “collecting” lesser-known repertoire, so I wanted to share 25 of my favorite hidden gems in the clarinet repertoire.
Here are 25 hidden gem clarinet pieces you should learn/perform in 2025:
(pieces listed alphabetically by composer’s last name)
- Violet Archer – Sonata for clarinet and piano
- Victor Babin – Divertissement Aspenois
- Ferruccio Busoni – Sonata
- Qigang Chen – Chant de l’aube for clarinet and piano
- Unsuk Chin – Concerto
- William Daley – Daley’s Arc
- Fernande Decruck – Élégie, Op. 42 for clarinet and piano
- Sarah Feigin – Fantasy
- Niels Gade – 4 Fantasiestücke, Op. 43
- Armando Ghidoni – Jazzy Celtic Suite
- Theodore Gouvy – Sonata, Op. 40
- Amanda Harberg – Sonata
- Jacques Hétu – Concerto
- Miriam Hyde – Sonata
- Ernst Krenek – Suite for clarinet and piano, Op. 148
- Meyer Kupferman – Moonflowers, Baby!
- Paul Veronge de La Nux – Morceau de Concours
- Zenobia Powell Perry – Sonatine for Clarinet and Piano
- Joseph Rheinberger – Sonata, Op. 105a
- Julius Rietz – Concerto, Op. 29
- Marie Elisabeth von Sachsen-Meiningen – Romanze
- Paul Schoenfeld – Sonatina for Klezmer clarinet and piano
- Louis Spohr – Fantasy and Variations on a Theme of Danzi, Op. 81
- Margaret Sutherland – Sonata
- Germaine Tailleferre – Sonata for Clarinet Solo
These are some of my favorite hidden gems of the clarinet repertoire, and I’ve performed several of these. Leave a comment below with your favorites or recommendations!