This ten-track, single-disc overview of the clarinet in a 20th c. contemporary musical context offers up performances and interpretations by the skilled Italian virtuoso and avant-garde music specialist Josè Daniel Cirigliano. These works, all but one by Italian composers and all heard in world premiere recordings, exploit the many timbral and expressive variations the instrument is capable of in the hands of a master. Among the featured composers, both living and deceased, is famed Italian modernist Luciano Berio (1925-2003).