Initially, the clarinet was also regarded as a suitable substitute instrument for the Baroque technique of clarinet blowing, i.e. particularly high and virtuoso trumpet playing. Molter’s clarinet concertos, as particularly early examples of their kind, therefore often feature typical baroque trumpet motifs. This recording pits the two instruments in a kind of indirect competition and at the same time presents Molter as an interesting composer of the transitional period between the baroque and galant styles.