Books by Colin (Goldsmiths College Lawson

This guide is intended for all clarinettists with a desire to investigate music of earlier periods. It contains practical help on both the aquisition and playing of historical clarinets, while performers on modern instruments will find much advice on style, approach and techniques which make up a well-grounded, period interpretation.

This 1999 volume offers an overview of historical performance, surveying issues and suggesting future developments. Its kernel comprises discussion of the performer's primary source-materials and their interpretation, aspects of style and technique that combine to make up a well-grounded, period interpretation, and a survey of performance conditions and practices.

Widely regarded as Brahms' supreme achievement in the field of chamber music, the Clarinet Quintet is here placed in the context of the history of the clarinet and its repertory, and of Brahms' own compositions before 1891.

An analysis of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto - of supreme importance as the composer's last instrumental work.