The Clarinet Concerto in A, K622, completed in 1791, the year of Mozart’s death, marked his farewell to instrumental music. It was also the first clarinet concerto to be written by a major composer – ...
Written in 1789, music lovers describe the emotional impact of Mozart's Clarinet Quintet. From March 2011. Show more Mozart's Clarinet Quintet was written in 1789, two years before the composer’s ...
When Michael Collins has given so many inspired performances in concert of Mozart’s supreme masterpiece, it is surprising that we have had to wait so long for a recording from him. Yet what a bonus ...
Under the direction of renowned French clarinettist and conductor Paul Meyer, the Omega Ensemble, appearing for the first time in an expanded chamber orchestra configuration, delivers a glowing ...
One hopes that the people around and about Mozart realised just how remarkable a composer and performer he really was, although much of the evidence from the time suggests that many failed to spot it.
Mozart wrote one of his best-loved chamber works, the Clarinet Quintet in A, for his friend, the basset clarinettist Anton Stadler. Stephen Johnson looks at how the composer explored the sonic depths ...
Mozart's Clarinet Concerto gets a performance in the town of Saarbrucken, Germany. The clarinetist is Jorge Widmann, with Christoph Poppen conducting the Saarbrucken Radio Symphony Orchestra.