Mozart Clarinet Quintet K581 in A major

Ensemble Q featuring
Paul Dean, clarinet
Natsuko Yoshimoto and Sonia Wilson, violins
Imants Larsens, viola
Trish Dean, cello
Allegro
Larghetto
Menuetto-Trio 1 - Trio II
Allegretto con variazioni

[@CinemaSatsang]

The clarinet is so wonderful!

[@takeshitedada4595]

The greあtest concert of all time. Bravo

[@CinemaSatsang]

Nice!

[@ColonelFredPuntridge]

I have been listening to this quintet for almost 50 years and I still don’t get what all the shouting is about. Sure it’s nice easy-listening music to have on while doing chores, but people talk as if it were revolutionary genius music like _Don Giovanni_ or _Die Zauberflöte._ It’s not, you know. Not even close.
And it doesn’t display anything special about the instrument, either. It would sound just as good played on an English horn or even a midrange brass instrument. Unlike, say, the Brahms Clarinet Quintet which has the clarinet’s special timbre and would lose everything without it.

[@pauldean7177]

I guess it is easy to forget that this Quintet and the Kegelstatt Trio were the first masterpieces written for the clarinet in a chamber music setting. On that fact alone, without even acknowledging the beauty, the playfulness and sheer joy in the music, it deserves its rightful place as a performer and audience favourite. I have played it over a 100 times, and I never fail to find a new moment in the work every time I play it. For me, it put the clarinet on the map in a chamber music world dominated by string quartets and piano trios.

[@ColonelFredPuntridge]

@@pauldean7177 Well, that's a point, I suppose. It has a place in instrumental history.