Mozart's Clarinet Quintet was written in 1789, two years before the composer’s death. The first ever work for string quartet plus clarinet remains a firm favourite for music lovers around the world.

The Omega Ensemble present their debut recording on ABC Classics, surveying music for clarinet from across three centuries. When Mozart composed his iconic Clarinet Quintet in 1789 it was the first ...

Clarinetist Martin Frost's recent Weber was exceptional, warranting an appraisal of his earlier Mozart clarinet music. It is difficult to overstate the cultural value of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto and ...

A celebration of some of Mozart's greatest woodwind concertos, in Claudio Abbado's 80th birthday year. Drive Featured Album, 22 April 2013. If this album is anything to go by, there's a reason ...

A milestone for Georgian music arrives in New York as cellist Sandro Sidamonidze gives the U.S. premiere of Vazha Azarashvili ...

It was about five minutes into Carey Bell's remarkable performance of the Mozart Clarinet Concerto in Davies Symphony Hall on Wednesday night that I realized I was hearing a master storyteller at work ...

The November 2014 edition of Looking Back to Bookspan’s “101 Masterpieces of Music and Their Composers” features important works created by the man Martin Bookspan called “one of the principal ...

Born on January 27 1756 in Salzburg, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart would go on to be one of the most-loved classical composers of all time. His operas, concertos, symphonies and sonatas went on to shape ...

On Jan. 27, 1756, classical music’s greatest prodigy was born. A star performer and a composer from age 5, with more than 620 works catalogued before his untimely death at age 35, Wolfgang Amade ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Nicole van Bruggen owns one of the rarest and most historically significant instruments in Australia, partly invented by Mozart. Yet her ...

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.