There’s one piece of music that neatly sums up the inventiveness, not to mention the sheer improvisational brilliance and multifaceted performing talent of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It’s a small-scale ...

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.

You might expect that on a glorious Fourth of July, with the sun high in a cloudless sky, the “music” element at the Olympic Music Festival would take a back seat to the obvious attractions of the ...

THE repertoire of music for trio of clarinet, viola and piano contains some exquisite music but the Kegelstatt trio by Mozart, which created the combination, is probably still the best known piece. By ...

The brilliant young clarinettist tackles one of the world's favourite concertos. One of a small handful of truly international wind players, Martin Fröst is hugely in demand throughout the world, ...

Between the 2009 recession and the growth of music streaming, the early 21st-century flood of classical music compact discs has dwindled to a trickle. That makes new CDs from musicians with ...

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 – ...