…Sabine Meyer makes light of the considerable difficulties of Spohr's Fourth Concerto with soft-grained and wonderfully even tone; Julian Bliss is technically impressive and only slightly less characterful in the Second.

Spohr… by his own admission, when he started knew nothing about the clarinet apart from its range… But the results… were splendid… No 2 in C minor, colourfully played by Julian Bliss, is full of instrumental invention, pitting the clarinet against some highly original effects and so requiring much care in balance as well as finger dexterity. No 4 is musically a more substantial work... Sabine Meyer takes it with proper seriousness, and makes out a case for this as perhaps the strongest of all Spohr's clarinet concertos.