Taking advantage of the new expressive possibilities opened up by improvements in the design of the clarinet, Mozart created a concerto of exquisite beauty — one of the last works he would ever write.

As is increasingly the fashion, Martin Fröst plays Mozart's Clarinet Concerto on a basset clarinet, the instrument with the extended lower range that Anton Stadler used for the first performance in ...

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 ...

Nobody has ever written for the clarinet quite like Mozart. He transformed it into the next best thing to the human voice; and in its repertoire there can be no works better loved than his Concerto ...

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 ...

Valedictory or visionary? Is there a choice? Could Mozart, who finished this concerto about eight weeks before he died, have been anything other than valedictory? Yet in his letter from Vienna to ...

Whatever you do, do not believe that 18th Century clarinet music begins and ends with Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622. An unsurpassable piece of music, to be sure, but Mozart laid the ...

Claudio Abbado's explorations of the 18th century, via music by Bach, Pergolesi and Mozart, have been the unexpected treasures among his recordings of the last decade. This latest disc continues a ...