The ‘Gran Partita’ is a big ensemble piece for woodwinds – and something of an adventure in instrumentation. Part of the ...

Woodwind quintets have never had the glamour of other small groups. Mozart, Brahms, and Beethoven didn't write much for that combination of instruments. But members of the Borealis Woodwind Quintet ...

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.

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 ...

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The tale behind Nielsen's Woodwind Quintet is one of friendship. On an autumn evening in 1921, a pianist named Christian Christiansen and members of the Copenhagen Wind Quintet were working on some ...

Charles Neidich joked that none of the members of the New York Woodwind Quintet are founders of the group. That’s understandable since the quintet was formed in 1948, making it one of the oldest ...