1. Take the battery out and hand it to Esa-Pekka Salonen. 2. Bring along your portable drill. Drill a hole all the way through the cell phone, approximately an inch from the top (watch out for sparks; ...

Mozart’s most famous quintets conclude a sequence of four instrumental works from the winter and spring of 1786 87 whose first movements, at least, are on an unprecedentedly monumental scale: the ...

This podcast features Mozart's Quintet for clarinet and strings in A Major, K. 581, performed by the outstanding ensemble of David Shifrin, clarinet; Vera Beths, violin; John Marcus, violin; James ...

Mozart wrote his first string quintet at the age of 17, choosing to add a second viola to the string quartet (the viola was an instrument he took a particular delight in playing). But, apart from ...

Mozart's String Quintet in C minor is his own arrangement of the demanding "Nachtmusique" K. 388 for eight wind instruments. He composed it for an ensemble at the Viennese court, where Emperor Joseph ...