The Chilingirian’s cycle of Mozart’s six string quintets has been nine years in the making and I’m sorry to have missed the earlier instalments. This third and final volume (once again with second ...

The Nash Ensemble plays all six of Mozart's string quintets here – the early B flat work K174, and the C minor quintet K406 that was a commercial arrangement of the wind serenade in the same key, form ...

His final major chamber work and written about the same time as his opera “The Magic Flute,” Mozart’s String Quintet No. 6 in E-Flat Major (K. 614) is today’s Midday Masterpiece.

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 ...

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; ...

The Locrian Ensemble offers polished, suave readings of these twin summits of the chamber repertory. Its uncomplicated approach works particularly well in the great first movement of K515, with its ...