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; ...

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’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 ...

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 ...

101 Hummel, J.N.: Quintet in D Minor for Piano and Strings: Allegro Con Spirito / Eugene List, Carroll Glenn. Piano,Violin 102 Hummel, J.N.: Quintet in D Minor for Piano and Strings: Menuetto O ...

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 ...

One has to admire the entrepreneurial spirit of violinist Ruth Palmer. For most young musicians, a recital disc will suffice for a debut recording, but she has gone out and found the sponsorship to ...