Both the one-movement Sonata in E and Romance for clarinet and piano date from 1901 (Bax’s first year at the Royal Academy) and may well have been conceived as parts of a larger work. The 1906 ‘Trio ...

Often typecast into supporting roles, the clarinet took the spotlight for this program assembling Béla Bartók’s “Contrasts,” Johannes Brahms’s “Clarinet Trio in A minor, Op.